Self-organized platinum nanoparticles on freestanding graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2697-2703

  Xu, Peng ^a   Dong, Lifeng ^b,c   Neek Amal, Mehdi ^d,f   Ackerman, Matthew L ^a   Yu, Jianhua ^b   Barber, Steven D ^a   Schoelz, James Kevin ^a   Qi, Dejun ^a   Xu, Fangfang ^e   Thibado, Paul M ^a   Peeters, Francois M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^f SHAHID RAJAEE TEACHER TRAINING UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

fuel cells; graphene; molecular dynamics; platinum; self organization; STM; TEM

Indexed keywords

FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE SUBSTRATES; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTIALLY EXPOSED; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; STM;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84897008922     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406394f     Document Type: Article

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