Aligned carbon nanotube array functionalization for enhanced atomic layer deposition of platinum electrocatalysts

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 258, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5212-5221

  Dameron, Arrelaine A ^a   Pylypenko, Svitlana ^a   Bult, Justin B ^a   Neyerlin, K C ^a   Engtrakul, Chaiwat ^a   Bochert, Christopher ^a   Leong, G Jeremy ^a   Frisco, Sarah L ^a   Simpson, Lin ^a   Dinh, Huyen N ^a   Pivovar, Bryan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligned carbon nanotube array; Atomic layer deposition (ALD); Carbon nanotube; Catalyst; Fuel cell; Functionalization; Nucleation; Plasma; Platinum; Polymer electrolyte membrane; Proton exchange membrane

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; NANOCATALYSTS; NUCLEATION; OXYGEN; PLASMAS; PLATINUM; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SURFACE REACTIONS; SURFACE TREATMENT; YARN;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PLATINUM ELECTROCATALYSTS; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84858069445     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.01.139     Document Type: Article

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