Fabrication of highly porous Pt coated nanostructured Cu-foam modified copper electrode and its enhanced catalytic ability for hydrogen evolution reaction

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 452-458

  Raoof, Jahan Bakhsh ^a   Ojani, Reza ^a   Kiani, Abolfazl ^b   Rashid Nadimi, Sahar ^a  

^a Faculty of Chemistry   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Hydrogen evolution; Pt Cu foam

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CATALYTIC ABILITY; COPPER ELECTRODES; COPPER FOAM; COPPER IONS; COPPER SUBSTRATES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROMETRY; FOAM FORMATION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; KINETIC CONSTANT; NANO-POROUS; NANOSTRUCTURED CU; PT/CU-FOAM;

ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; HYDROGEN; METAL IONS; PLATINUM; RATE CONSTANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COPPER;

EID: 73749084031     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.069     Document Type: Article

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