Electro-catalytic oxidation of methane at multi-walled carbon nanotubes-Nafion/nickel hydroxide modified nickel electrode

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 402-407

  Qiao, Jie ^a,b   Tang, Shengnan ^a   Tian, Yanni ^a   Shuang, Shaomin ^a   Dong, Chuan ^a   Choi, Martin M F ^c  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Methane; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Nafion; Nickel modified electrode

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CATALYTIC EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE VOLTAMMETRIES; ELECTRO-CATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NAFION; NAFION FILMS; NICKEL ELECTRODES; NICKEL HYDROXIDES; OXIDATION PEAKS; OXYGEN INTERFERENCES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; METHANE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; OXYGEN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 64549106477     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2009.02.065     Document Type: Article

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