One-pot synthesis of graphene-supported monodisperse pd nanoparticles as catalyst for formic acid electro-oxidation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, Sudong ^a,c,d   Dong, Jing ^b   Yao, Zhaohui ^c   Shen, Chengmin ^a   Shi, Xuezhao ^a   Tian, Yuan ^a   Lin, Shaoxiong ^a   Zhang, Xiaogang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^d XINJIANG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

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EID: 84897144386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04501     Document Type: Article

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