Effect of decreasing platinum amount in Pt-Sn-Ni alloys supported on carbon as electrocatalysts for ethanol electrooxidation

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9314-9323

  Correa, Patrícia Dos Santos ^a   Da Silva, Elen Leal ^a   Da Silva, Renato Figueira ^a   Radtke, Cláudio ^a   Moreno, Berta ^b   Chinarro, Eva ^b   Malfatti, Célia De Fraga ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct ethanol fuel cell; Electrocatalyst; Nanostructured

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION CONTROL; ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPY; ETHANOL ELECTRO-OXIDATION; NANO-STRUCTURED; PARTICLE SIZE RANGES; REDUCTION METHOD;

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIRECT ETHANOL FUEL CELLS (DEFC); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROOXIDATION; ETHANOL; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM; TIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84861095628     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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