Investigation of the porous nanostructured Cu/Ni/AuNi electrode for sodium borohydride electrooxidation

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-222

  Hosseini, Mir Ghasem ^a   Abdolmaleki, Mehdi ^a   Nasirpouri, Farzad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Borohydride electrooxidation; Cyclic voltammetry; Direct borohydride fuel cell; Electrocatalyst; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Galvanic replacement

Indexed keywords

BOROHYDRIDES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODEPOSITION PROCESS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; GALVANIC REPLACEMENTS; OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE ELECTROOXIDATION;

CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; COATINGS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIRECT BOROHYDRIDE FUEL CELLS (DBFC); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROOXIDATION; GOLD COATINGS; NICKEL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC COATINGS;

GOLD;

EID: 84887125561     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.012     Document Type: Article

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