Highly stable Pt monolayer on PdAu nanoparticle electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sasaki, Kotaro ^a   Naohara, Hideo ^b   Choi, Yongman ^a,c   Cai, Yun ^a   Chen, Wei Fu ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Adzic, Radoslav R ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; PLATINUM;

ALLOY; CATALYST; DATA SET; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRODE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FUEL CELL; GOLD; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLATINUM; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEHICLE COMPONENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CATALYST; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROCATALYST; MOLECULAR STABILITY; REDUCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

EID: 84869486261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2124     Document Type: Article

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