Support nanostructure boosts oxygen transfer to catalytically active platinum nanoparticles

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 310-315

  Vayssilov, Georgi N ^a   Lykhach, Yaroslava ^b   Migani, Annapaola ^c   Staudt, Thorsten ^b   Petrova, Galina P ^a   Tsud, Nataliya ^d   Skála, Tomáš ^e   Bruix, Albert ^c   Illas, Francesc ^c   Prince, Kevin C ^e   Matolín, Vladimír ^d   Neyman, Konstantin M ^c,f   Libuda, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXYGEN; PLATINUM;

CERIA-BASED CATALYSTS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FORMATION MECHANISM; METAL-OXIDE INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; NANOSCALE EFFECTS; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY;

PLATINUM METALS;

EID: 79953061958     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2976     Document Type: Article

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