Porous dendritic platinum nanotubes with extremely high activity and stability for oxygen reduction reaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Gaixia ^a,b   Sun, Shuhui ^a,b   Cai, Mei ^c   Zhang, Yong ^a   Li, Ruying ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POROSITY;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; POROSITY; WATER;

EID: 84875771272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01526     Document Type: Article

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