Facile design of Au@Pt core-shell nanostructures: Formation of Pt submonolayers with tunable coverage and their applications in electrocatalysis

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 410-417

  Zheng, Fulin ^a   Wong, Wing Tak ^a   Yung, Ka Fu ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; fuel cell; platinum; submonolayer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897023613     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0407-1     Document Type: Article

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