Preparation of pt Ag alloy nanoisland/graphene hybrid composites and its high stability and catalytic activity in methanol electro-oxidation

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-10

  Feng, Lili ^a   Gao, Guo ^a   Huang, Peng ^a   Wang, Xiansong ^a   Zhang, Chunlei ^a   Zhang, Jiali ^a   Guo, Shouwu ^a   Cui, Daxiang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG-ALLOY; CATALYTIC FUNCTIONS; CHEMICAL REDUCTION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; GRAPHITE OXIDE; HIGH STABILITY; HYBRID COMPOSITES; METHANOL ELECTROOXIDATION; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOISLAND; NANOMATERIAL; ZETA POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

ALLOYS; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; GOLD; GRAPHENE; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NANORODS; OXIDATION; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84861184814     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-551     Document Type: Article

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