Comparison of Metal Cleaning Effect on Pt Particles Supported on Carbon and Pt Black Observed by NMR, CV, and TEM

60% Pt on Vulcan XC-72 with similar Pt sizes to fuel cell grade Pt black was investigated by 13/C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), cyclic voltammery (CV), transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Experiments were carried out on electrochemically cleaned samples as well as as-received. The TEM and CV results showed that the average particle sizes were changed by cleaning. However, the chemical shift （G/） of 13/C of 13/CO absorbed on Pt surfaces did not show any appreciable variation with particle size change as did in Pt black. These results indicate that a combination of different analytic techniques is essential to understand the properties of the metal particle catalysts and that the presence of carbon black support strongly influences the NMR data, probably through metal-support interaction.