Effects of annealing conditions on catalytic activities of Pt-Cu nanoparticle electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells

ECS Transactions

Volumn 16, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1093-1103

  Koh, Shirlaine ^a   Hahn, Nathan ^b   Yu, Chengfei ^a   Strasser, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; ANNEALING; BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

ANNEALING CONDITION; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES; CU NANO-PARTICLES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; OXYGEN REDUCTION; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; STRUCTURAL DETAILS;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 63149142569     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/1.2981950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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