Structurally ordered intermetallic platinum-cobalt core-shell nanoparticles with enhanced activity and stability as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-87

  Wang, Deli ^a   Xin, Huolin L ^b   Hovden, Robert ^b   Wang, Hongsen ^a   Yu, Yingchao ^a   Muller, David A ^b   Disalvo, Francis J ^a   Abruña, Héctor D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; PLATINUM METALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

CATALYST PERFORMANCE; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; FUEL CELL APPLICATION; NEXT GENERATION FUELS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; TESTING CONDITIONS;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84871304806     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3458     Document Type: Article

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