Pt-195 NMR of platinum electrocatalysts: Friedel-Heine invariance and correlations between platinum knight shifts, healing length, and adsorbate electronegativity
Yy. Tong et al., Pt-195 NMR of platinum electrocatalysts: Friedel-Heine invariance and correlations between platinum knight shifts, healing length, and adsorbate electronegativity, J AM CHEM S, 122(48), 2000, pp. 11921-11924
The influence of a series of different ligands (H, O, S, CN-, CO, and Ru),
electrochemically adsorbed onto carbon-supported nanoscale Pt particles, ha
s been investigated by Pt-195 NMR, in an electrochemical environment. The N
MR Knight shifts from atoms in the;interior of the particles are invariant
to surface ligand adsorption, as expected by the Friedel-Heine invariance t
heorem. However, the shifts of the surface and subsurface atoms vary over a
similar to 11000 ppm range for the adsorbates investigated. The Knight shi
fts of the surface and subsurface platinum atoms, obtained by using an NMR
layer-model simulation, linearly map the electronegativity of the adsorbate
. These observations permit the derivation of a correlation between the "he
aling length" of the Pt metal, a parameter indicating how fast the bulk met
al properties are recovered when moving in from the surface, and the electr
onegativity of the adsorbate, providing a new probe of electrocatalyst and
heterogeneous catalyst surface electronic structure.