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Jun 18, 1979 - Phys., 18(9), 1024 (1950); (a) W. A. Steele,“The ... Electrooxidation of methanol was carried out on a platinum-tin (Pt-Sn) oxide ele...
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(22) W. Fritz, Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitat I 1.2 V, all adsorbed organic species are practically absent from the platinum electrode.2 Therefore, after anodic activation a t E = 1.65 V for 1 min, we abruptly switch E to E , = 0.45 V a t T = 0. A t E,, methanol is oxidized on the electrode for a period of T s when the adsorption of methanol also takes place, and subsequently a rapid cathodic potential sweep of 8 V/s is applied to the electrode from E = E , to E = 0.05 V. When the sweep rate is rapid enough for A adsorbed a t E , to stay on the electrode during the potential sweep and also for the additional A not to adsorb on it, the site occupied by A at E , is not able to adsorb hydrogen. Consequently, the amount of

Binding Energy (eV)

Flgure 2. The XPS spectrum of Pt 4f electrons of 100 atom % Pt. The half-band width was taken as 1.5 eV in the deconvolutlon.

TABLE I: Binding Energy of Platinum 4f Electrons (eV) 4f5jz 74.5 76.1 74.5 76.0 76.8 78.4

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assignment

( A ) 100 atom % Pt 71.2 PtO 72.8 Pt(OH)Z (B) 1 6 atom % Pt-Sn Oxide 71.2 PtO 72.8 Pt(OH)Z 73.6 PtO 75.1 PtO,/Pt(OH),

adsorbed hydrogen observed by the potential sweep of the present potential sequence (Figure 1)gives the number of sites which are still vacant when the electrode is polarized at E , for r s. The current for a sweep rate of 8 VIS was recorded as the iR drop with a Wave Memory (E-5001 of NF) through a differential amplifier. 7 was varied from 1 to 600 s. All electrochemical measurements were done potentiostatically at room temperature. We employed 2.0, reported for Sn02on glass,lg as a roughness factor for the Pt-Sn oxide. X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ( X P S ) . The XPS spectrometer was an ESCA 3 (Vacuum Generator). Catalysts were inserted into the spectrometer after being washed with ethanol. Spectra were taken with Mg Ka X rays at pressures