Size-dependent electrocatalytic activity of gold nanoparticles on HOPG and highly boron-doped diamond surfaces

Molecules

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 10059-10077

  Brülle, Tine ^a   Ju, Wenbo ^a   Niedermayr, Philipp ^a   Denisenko, Andrej ^b   Paschos, Odysseas ^a   Schneider, Oliver ^a   Stimming, Ulrich ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrocatalytic activity; Gold nanoparticles; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Oxygen reduction reaction; Single crystalline diamond

Indexed keywords

BORON; DIAMOND; GOLD; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BORON; CATALYSIS; DIAMOND; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GOLD; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84555196172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules161210059     Document Type: Article

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