Facile syntheses and enhanced electrocatalytic activities of Pt nanocrystals with {hkk} high-index surfaces

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 181-189

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Chen, Dingqiong ^a   Jiang, Zhiyuan ^a   Zhang, Jiawei ^a   Xie, Shuifen ^a   Kuang, Qin ^a   Xie, Zhaoxiong ^a   Zheng, Lansun ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

crystal growth; electrocatalysis; high index facets; Pt nanocrystals; structure property relationship; surface structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862822143     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0198-1     Document Type: Article

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