One-pot fabrication of FePt/reduced graphene oxide composites as highly active and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Carbon

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 755-762

  Chen, Dan ^a   Zhao, Xin ^b   Chen, Shanshan ^b   Li, Huifeng ^b   Fu, Xinning ^a   Wu, Qingzhi ^a   Li, Shipu ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Su, Bao Lian ^a,c,d   Ruoff, Rodney S ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMETALLIC ALLOYS; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY FIELDS; FE-PT NANOPARTICLE; GRAPHENE OXIDES; MONO-DISPERSE; ONE POT; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; PLATINUM ALLOYS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); GRAPHENE; IRON ALLOYS; OXYGEN; PLATINUM;

GRAPHENE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84891561266     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.11.064     Document Type: Article

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