Tin-oxide-coated single-walled carbon nanotube bundles supporting platinum electrocatalysts for direct ethanol fuel cells

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Hsu, Ryan S ^a   Higgins, Drew ^a   Chen, Zhongwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MEDIUM; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ETHANOL OXIDATION; REDUCTION METHOD; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; SOLUTION ROUTES; SUPPORTED PT; TEM; XRD;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIRECT ETHANOL FUEL CELLS (DEFC); ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTROLYSIS; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; PLATINUM; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

ALCOHOL; CARBON NANOTUBE; PLATINUM; TIN DERIVATIVE; TIN DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77950470471     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165705     Document Type: Article

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