Electrospun carbon nanofiber-supported Pt-Pd alloy composites for oxygen reduction

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1329-1335

  Lin, Zhan ^a   Ji, Liwen ^a   Toprakci, Ozan ^a   Krause, Wendy ^a   Zhang, Xiangwu ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-ELECTRODEPOSITION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETERS; DURATION TIME; ELECTROCATALYTIC ABILITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTROSPUN CARBON NANOFIBERS; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; NANOFIBER COMPOSITES; OXYGEN REDUCTION; PD ALLOY; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SEM; SUPPORTED PT;

ALLOYS; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 77957931500     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.0163     Document Type: Article

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