The invention relates to a
nickel-based catalyst of special
hydrogen used for preparing a fuel
cell and a preparation method. The
nickel-based catalyst is composed of a core layer and a shell layer. The core layer is integrally formed through a
base metal material and a
nickel boride nanometer wire, and an
amorphous phase nickel borate nanometer array is adopted as the shell layer. The preparationmethod comprises the following steps that 1, the
nickel boride nanometer wire is prepared; the surface of the
base metal material is covered with an aluminum
oxide mask plate, the nickel nanometer array is deposited on the nickel piece base in advance through a
vacuum evaporation coating method, after depositing is carried out for 25-35 minutes,
boron hydride gas is introduced to grow the nickelboride nanometer wire in an epitaxial manner, after
boron hydride gas is introduced, depositing is carried out, the
base metal material is taken out, and the
mask plate is stripped off to obtain the core layer for standby; and 2, the nickel borate-
nickel boride hydrogen manufacturing catalyst for the core and shell structure is prepared, protective gas is used for loading
boric acid steam to carryout annealing on the core layer to generate the
amorphous phase nickel borate nanometer array, and the nickel borate-
nickel boride catalyst of the core and shell structure is prepared and obtained.