Incorporation of functionalized palladium nanoparticles within ultrathin nafion films: A nanostructured composite for electrolytic and redox-mediated hydrogen evolution

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1685-1693

  Li, Fei ^a   Bertoncello, Paolo ^a,b   Ciani, Ilenia ^a   Mantovani, Giuseppe ^a   Unwin, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COMPOSITE FILMS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROLYSIS; ENCAPSULATION; ESTIMATION; GLASS; HYDROGEN; INDIUM; MAGNETIC FILMS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALLIZING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PALLADIUM; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VOLTAMMETRY;

ACTIVE SURFACE AREA (ASA); DIMETHYLAMINO PYRIDINE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY (ECA); ELECTRON DONORS; FUNCTIONALIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION (HE); HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION (HER); INDIUM TIN OXIDE (ITO); INTRINSIC ACTIVITIES; LANGMUIR-SCHAEFER (LS) FILMS; NAFION FILMS; NANO-COMPOSITE FILMS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NUMBER DENSITIES; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLES; PD NANO-PARTICLES; POSITIVELY CHARGED; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY (SECM); SINGLE NANO-PARTICLE; UV VISIBLE (UV VIS) SPECTROSCOPY;

FILM THICKNESS;

EID: 46449111707     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200701447     Document Type: Article

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