Syntheses of carbon porous materials with varied pore sizes and their performances as catalyst supports during methanol oxidation reaction

Applied Energy

Volumn 100, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-74

  Lo, An Ya ^a,b   Hung, Chin Te ^a   Yu, Ningya ^c   Kuo, Cheng Tzu ^d   Liu, Shang Bin ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon porous materials; CO poisoning; DMFC; Electrocatalyst; Methanol oxidation reaction

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SUPPORTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR INFILTRATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); ELECTROCATALYSTS; METHANOL; PHOTOELECTRONS; PLATINUM; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON SUBSTRATES; CARBON SUPPORT; CO POISONING; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; EXTENDED RANGE; MESOPOROUS SILICA; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; POROUS SILICA; PT CATALYSTS; PT LOADING; PT NANOPARTICLES; SUPPORTED PT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM;

CARBON;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; FUEL CELL; INFILTRATION; METHANOL; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POISONING; POROSITY; SILICA;

EID: 84867693128     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.05.043     Document Type: Article

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