Improvement of cathode performance on Pt-CeOx by optimization of electrochemical pretreatment condition for PEFC application

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 16692-16700

  Fugane, Keisuke ^a,b   Mori, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Ou, Ding Rong ^c   Yan, Pengfei ^b   Ye, Fei ^d   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^b   Drennan, John ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODE PERFORMANCE; COIMPREGNATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; DEFECT CLUSTER; ELECTROCHEMICAL CONDITIONING; HETERO INTERFACES; HIGH STABILITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PRETREATMENT CONDITIONS; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CATHODES; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; PLATINUM; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84870556085     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la302912r     Document Type: Article

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