Role of surface steps of Pt nanoparticles on the electrochemical activity for oxygen reduction

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1316-1320

  Lee, Seung Woo ^a,b   Chen, Shuo ^b,c   Suntivich, Jin ^b,c   Sasaki, Kotaro ^d   Adzic, Radoslav R ^d   Shao Horn, Yang ^b,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy Conversion and Storage

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CATALYST; ANNEALING EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; IN-SITU; METHANOL ELECTROOXIDATION; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; NANOSCALE CATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PT NANOPARTICLES; SMALL MOLECULES; SURFACE STEPS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; X-RAY ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION;

EID: 77952016434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100241j     Document Type: Article

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