Highly open bowl-like PtAuAg nanocages as robust electrocatalysts towards ethylene glycol oxidation.

A novel combined seed mediated and galvanic replacement method has been demonstrated to synthesize a new class of trimetallic PtAuAg nanocatalysts with highly open bowl-like nanocage structure. The newly-generated PtAuAg nanocages catalysts exhibit superior electrocatalytic performances towards ethylene glycol oxidation with the mass activity of 6357.1 mA mg −1 , 5.5 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C (1151.1 mA mg −1 ). This work demonstrates the first example of designing shape-controlled architectures of trimetallic bowl-like PtAuAg nanocages for liquid fuel electrooxidation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]