Designing enhanced one-dimensional electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction: Probing size- and composition-dependent electrocatalytic behavior in noble metal nanowires

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 3385-3398

  Koenigsmann, Christopher ^a   Scofield, Megan E ^a   Liu, Haiqing ^a   Wong, Stanislaus S ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC BEHAVIOR; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; HIGH QUALITY; INTRINSIC PERFORMANCE; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; METAL NANOWIRE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; WIRE SIZE;

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84869416731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301457h     Document Type: Review

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