Kinetic investigation of oxygen reduction reaction in sub-freezing acid media

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4844-4848

  Song, Wei ^a,b   Hou, Junbo ^a,b   Yu, Hongmei ^a   Hao, Lixing ^a,b   Shao, Zhigang ^a   Yi, Baolian ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cold start; Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR); Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell; Pt C catalyst; Subzero

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS;

COLD START; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION (ORR); PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE (PEM) FUEL CELL; PT/C CATALYST; SUBZERO;

OXYGEN;

EID: 51349109532     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.06.057     Document Type: Article

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