Commercial Spirits for Surfactant-Free Syntheses of Electro-Active Platinum Nanoparticles

The Co4CatTM process is a simple, surfactant-free method to produce colloidal dispersions of precious metal nanoparticles in alkaline mono-alcohols. synthesis performed low-boiling-point solvents and relevant for industrial production. robustness the demonstrated by using three different commercial spirits as obtain Pt nanoparticles. results demonstrate that careful control solvent purity not needed achieve stable 2 nm platinum nanoparticle colloids readily active electrocatalysts energy conversion reactions like methanol oxidation.