An electrochemical route to prepare Pd nanostructures on a gas diffusion substrate for a PEMFC

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 516-524

  Salomé, Sónia ^a   Rego, Rosa ^a   Querejeta, Amaia ^b   Alcaide, Francisco ^b   Oliveira, M Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b Centro de Investigacion Tecnologica En Electroquimica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrodeposition; Gas diffusion electrode; Nanostructures; Oxygen reduction reaction; Palladium; PEMFC

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN GASES; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PALLADIUM; POLYELECTROLYTES; REDUCTION;

CATALYST LAYERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ROUTES; GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODES; INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES; OVERPOTENTIAL DEPOSITION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POTENTIOSTATIC DEPOSITION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 84879824792     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.04.159     Document Type: Article

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