Significant role of Ru-oxide present in the Pt-Ru alloy catalyst for ethanol electro-oxidation in acid medium

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-271

  Datta, J ^a   Gupta, S Sen ^a   Singh, S ^a   Mukherjee, S ^b   Mukherjee, M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Bifunctional mechanism; Electro oxidation; Electrodeposition; Electron microscope; Impedence spectroscopy; X ray; XPS

Indexed keywords

ACID MEDIUM; BIFUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC BEHAVIOR; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; ETHANOL ELECTRO-OXIDATION; ETHANOL OXIDATION; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IMPEDENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; OXYGEN TRANSFER; PT-RU CATALYSTS; PTRU ALLOY; REACTION ORDERS; TEM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VALENCY STATE; XPS; XPS SPECTRA;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ETHANOL; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 79953218079     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426914.2010.520796     Document Type: Article

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