Investigation of carbon-supported Au hollow nanospheres as electrocatalyst for electrooxidation of sodium borohydride

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3360-3366

  Wei, Jianliang ^a   Wang, Xianyou ^a   Wang, Ying ^b   Chen, Quanqi ^a   Pei, Fu ^a   Wang, Yansheng ^a  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Au hollow nanospheres; Borohydride; Electrocatalyst; Fuel cell

Indexed keywords

A CARBONS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; AU HOLLOW NANOSPHERES; AU NANOPARTICLES; BOROHYDRIDE; CHRONOPOTENTIOMETRY; CO NANOPARTICLES; ELECTRO-CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCATALYST; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL TESTS; ENERGY DISPERSIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE; SOLID NANOPARTICLES; TEM; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROOXIDATION; FUEL CELLS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; SODIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GOLD;

EID: 64449087760     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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