Recent advances in electrocatalysis of Formic acid oxidation

Lecture Notes in Energy

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-87

  Rice, Cynthia Ann ^a   Bauskar, Akshay ^a   Pickup, Peter G ^b  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE POWER; BIMETALLIC CATALYSTS; CATALYST SURFACES; DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS; FORMIC ACID OXIDATION; PORTABLE POWER; STERIC MECHANISM; STRUCTURE EFFECT;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS (FAFC);

FORMIC ACID;

EID: 84882932989     PISSN: 21951284     EISSN: 21951292     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4911-8_4     Document Type: Article

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