Enhanced oxygen reduction and methanol oxidation reaction activities of partially ordered PtCu nanoparticles

Energy Procedia

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 208-215

  Hodnik, Nejc ^a   Bele, Marjan ^a   Rečnik, Aleksander ^b   Logar, Nataša Zabukovec ^a   Gaberšček, Miran ^a   Hočevar, Stanko ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c Mebius Doo   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Methanol oxydation reaction; Oxygen reduction reaction; PEM fuel cell catalyst

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897106384     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.09.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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