Palladium nanoparticles loaded on carbon modified TiO2 nanobelts for enhanced methanol electrooxidation

Nano-Micro Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 202-212

  Liang, Robert ^a,b   Hu, Anming ^a   Persic, John ^c   Norman Zhou, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Microbonds Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon modification; Electrocatalysts; Fuel cell; Methanol electrooxidation; Palladium nanoparticles; Titanium oxide nanobelts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887535682     PISSN: 23116706     EISSN: 21505551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5101/nml.v5i3.p202-212     Document Type: Article

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