A nanoflower shaped gold-palladium alloy on graphene oxide nanosheets with exceptional activity for electrochemical oxidation of ethanol

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 181, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 373-380

  Wang, Qiyu ^a   Cui, Xiaoqiang ^a   Guan, Weiming ^b   Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Xue, Tianyu ^a   Wang, Haitao ^a   Zheng, Weitao ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Platinum Metals   (China)

Author keywords

Alloy; Catalyst; Graphene; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892675505     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-013-1119-z     Document Type: Article

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