High-quality reduced graphene oxide-nanocrystalline platinum hybrid materials prepared by simultaneous co-reduction of graphene oxide and chloroplatinic acid

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Yinjie ^a   Liu, Jincheng ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Sun, Darren Delai ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; PLATINUM; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SODIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CHLOROPLATINIC ACID; DIFFRACTION PEAKS; NANOCRYSTALLINE PLATINUM; NONPOLAR ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; PT NANOPARTICLES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SODIUM CITRATE; CO-REDUCTION; HIGH QUALITY; MEAN DIAMETER; OLEYLAMINE; PH VALUE; PT LOADING; XPS ANALYSIS; XRD PATTERNS;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84255168552     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-241     Document Type: Article

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