Single-atom catalyst for high-performance methanol oxidation

Single-atom catalysts have been widely investigated for several electrocatalytic reactions except electrochemical alcohol oxidation. Herein, we synthesize atomically dispersed platinum on ruthenium oxide (Pt 1 /RuO 2 ) using a simple impregnation-adsorption method. We find that Pt 1 /RuO 2 has good electrocatalytic activity towards methanol oxidation in an alkaline media with a mass activity that is 15.3-times higher than that of commercial Pt/C...