Morphology controlled synthesis and characterization of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers supported platinum catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 12902-12908

  Hu, Jue ^a   Zhang, Chengxu ^a   Jiang, Lin ^b   Meng, Yuedong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PLANE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL SURFACE AREA; MORPHOLOGY-CONTROLLED; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SUPPORTED PLATINUM CATALYSTS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOFIBERS;

CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; FUEL CELLS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84879430767     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp403562h     Document Type: Article

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