Morphological effect of Pd catalyst on ethanol electro-oxidation reaction

Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1686-1697

  Cerritos, Raúl Carrera ^a,b   Guerra Balcázar, Minerva ^c   Ramírez, Rosalba Fuentes ^b   Ledesma García, Janet ^c   Arriaga, Luis Gerardo ^a  

^a Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ethanol electro oxidation; Pd nanobars; Pd nanoparticles; Pd nanorods

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL FACE; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTRO-ACTIVITY; ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; ETHANOL ELECTRO-OXIDATION; ETHANOL OXIDATION; MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; NANOBARS; PD CATALYST; PD NANO PARTICLE; POLYOL METHODS; XRD , TEM;

CARBON BLACK; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ETHANOL;

EID: 84869988269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma5091686     Document Type: Article

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