Highly dispersed TaOx nanoparticles prepared by electrodeposition as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 11635-11646

  Seo, Jeongsuk ^a   Zhao, Lan ^b   Cha, Dongkyu ^b   Takanabe, Kazuhiro ^b   Katayama, Masao ^a   Kubota, Jun ^a,c   Domen, Kazunari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CARBON BLACK; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DURABILITY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TANTALUM OXIDES; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ACCELERATED DURABILITY TESTS; CATALYTIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODEPOSITION CONDITIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84879381052     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4013703     Document Type: Article

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