Preparation of highly active and stable polyaniline-cobalt-carbon nanotube electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-154

  Yin, Zhong Shu ^a   Hu, Tian Hang ^a   Wang, Jian Long ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Liu, Zhi Xiang ^b   Guo, Jian Wei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Citrate acid; In situ synthesis; Non noble metal electrocatalyst; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CITRATE ACID; COBALT NANOPARTICLES; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROCATALYST FOR OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTIONS; IN-SITU SYNTHESIS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POROUS STRUCTURES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COBALT; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; POLYANILINE; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84892735844     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.12.072     Document Type: Article

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