The invention discloses a superfine medium-entropy
nanoparticle catalyst for electrochemical oxidation of
ethylene glycol and other micromolecules as well as a preparation method and application of the superfine medium-entropy
nanoparticle catalyst. The catalyst comprises a superfine medium-entropy nano-particle
metal material and a conductive substrate material, the superfine medium-entropy nano-particle
metal material comprises
copper metal and at least two precious metals, and the catalyst has outstanding catalytic ability. The preparation method of the catalyst is simple and convenient, and only the superfine medium-entropy
nanoparticle metal material needs to be synthesized through a solvothermal method and is loaded on the conductive substrate material; the temperature of the whole synthesis process is lower than 200 DEG C, so that the problems of high cost,
high energy consumption, poor stability, large potential safety
hazard and the like in the traditional synthesis method are solved. The superfine medium-entropy nanoparticle catalyst prepared by the invention shows excellent performance in oxidation of micromolecules such as electro-
catalysis ethylene glycol and the like. By taking
ethylene glycol electrooxidation as an example, the Pb-CuPtPd MEANs-C can efficiently and stably convert
ethylene glycol into
glycollic acid, the
mass activity of the Pb-CuPtPd MEANs-C under 0.9 V vs.RHE reaches up to 14 A mg <-1 > PtPd, and the
Faraday efficiency (FEGA) of
glycollic acid production is 82.3%.