Control over the branched structures of platinum nanocrystals for electrocatalytic applications

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9797-9806

  Ma, Liang ^a   Wang, Chengming ^a   Gong, Ming ^b   Liao, Lingwen ^a   Long, Ran ^a   Wang, Jinguo ^d   Wu, Di ^a   Zhong, Wei ^a   Kim, Moon J ^d,e   Chen, Yanxia ^a   Xie, Yi ^a   Xiong, Yujie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^e Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

branched structure; electrocatalysis; HCl; nanocrystal; platinum

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC STEP; BRANCHED NANOCRYSTALS; BRANCHED STRUCTURES; COMPLEX NANOSTRUCTURES; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTROCATALYTIC; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; FORMIC ACID OXIDATION; GROWTH SITES; HCL; HIGH ACTIVITY; OXIDATIVE ETCHING; PLATINUM NANOCRYSTALS; PT ATOMS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; SYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; TWO PARAMETER;

ELECTROCATALYSIS; ETCHING; FORMIC ACID; GROWTH KINETICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NANOCRYSTALS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

PLATINUM;

FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FORMATES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870408456     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304237u     Document Type: Article

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