Hydrogen production from formic acid decomposition at room temperature using a Ag-Pd core-shell nanocatalyst

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 302-307

  Tedsree, Karaked ^a   Li, Tong ^a   Jones, Simon ^a   Chan, Chun Wong Aaron ^a   Yu, Kai Man Kerry ^a   Bagot, Paul A J ^a   Marquis, Emmanuelle A ^a   Smith, George D W ^a   Tsang, Shik Chi Edman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BINARY ALLOYS; FORMIC ACID; FUEL CELLS; NANOCATALYSTS; NANOPARTICLES; PALLADIUM; PALLADIUM ALLOYS; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILVER ALLOYS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; FORMIC ACID DECOMPOSITIONS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HYDROGEN FOR FUEL CELLS; PORTABLE DEVICE; SOLID CATALYSTS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

ELECTROLYTE; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; PALLADIUM; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; NANOCATALYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79955859884     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.42     Document Type: Article

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