Carbon-supported platinum catalysts for direct alcohol fuel cell anode

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 703-709

  Gupta, S Sen ^a   Bandyopadhya, N R ^a   Datta, J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Charge transfer resistance; Cyclic voltammetry; Deposition current density; Electrocatalytic activity; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Ethanol oxidation; Galvanostatic deposition; Particle size; Platinum catalysts; Polarization study

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL FUELS; CARBON; CHARGE TRANSFER DEVICES; CURRENT DENSITY; FUEL CELLS; OXIDATION; PLATINUM; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DEPOSITION CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRO-OXIDATION; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ETHANOL OXIDATION; GALVANOSTATIC DEPOSITION; PLATINUM CATALYSTS;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 33748866671     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426910600613546     Document Type: Article

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