Imaging the electrocatalytic activity of single nanoparticles

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 668-672

  Shan, Xiaonan ^a,b   Díez Pérez, Ismael ^a,c   Wang, Luojia ^d   Wiktor, Peter ^a   Gu, Ying ^d   Zhang, Lihua ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Lu, Jin ^a,e   Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^d   Li, Jinghong ^e   Tao, Nongjian ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASMONICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCATALYTIC REACTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CURRENTS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES;

PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84871041829     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.134     Document Type: Article

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