Design of Pt-shell nanoparticles with alloy cores for the oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 9168-9172

  Zhang, Liang ^a,b   Iyyamperumal, Ravikumar ^a,b   Yancey, David F ^a,b   Crooks, Richard M ^a,b   Henkelman, Graeme ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

core shell nanoparticles; oxygen reduction; platinum

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; DENDRIMER ENCAPSULATED NANOPARTICLES; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES THEORY; OPTIMAL COMPOSITION; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; TUNING MECHANISM;

ALLOYS; BINDING ENERGY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84887001448     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403788a     Document Type: Article

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