Carbon-supported Pt- TiO2 as a methanol-tolerant oxygen-reduction catalyst for DMFCs

Journal of the Electrochemical Society

Volumn 156, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Selvarani, G ^a   Maheswari, S ^a   Sridhar, P ^a   Pitchumani, S ^a   Shukla, A K ^b  

^a CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CATHODE CATALYST; COMPLEMENTARY DATA; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE ANALYSIS; FUEL CELL POLARIZATION; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; METHANOL TOLERANCE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTIONS; PEAK POWER DENSITIES; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL METHODS; SUPPORTED PT; SURFACE COMPOSITIONS; SURFACE OXIDATIONS; TIO;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLATINUM; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

EID: 70349754520     PISSN: 00134651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1149/1.3223911     Document Type: Article

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