Highly dispersed Pt nanoparticles by pentagon defects introduced in bamboo-shaped carbon nanotube support and their enhanced catalytic activity on methanol oxidation

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1833-1840

  Gan, Lin ^a   Lv, Ruitao ^a   Du, Hongda ^a   Li, Baohua ^a   Kang, Feiyu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITES; CARBON SOURCES; CHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRO-CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; ELECTRON CONDUCTIONS; ENHANCED CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRUM; GRAPHITIC NANOTUBES; METAL PARTICLES; METHANOL OXIDATIONS; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PT NANOPARTICLES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

BAMBOO; CARBON BLACK; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DEFECTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC TAPE; METAL REFINING; METHANOL; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PLATINUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 64749089716     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.03.025     Document Type: Article

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