Photoassisted enhancement of the electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid on platinized TiO2 nanotubes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5585-5594

  Mojumder, Nazrul ^a   Sarker, Swagotom ^a   Abbas, Syed Arslan ^a   Tian, Zong ^a   Subramanian, Vaidyanathan ^a  

^a Reno   (United States)

Author keywords

formic acid; fuel cell; photoelectrocatalysis; Pt nanoparticles; solvothermal

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROOXIDATION; FUEL CELLS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; PLATINUM; PROCESS CONTROL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED PROCESS; ELECTRO-CATALYTIC OXIDATION; OXIDATION OF FORMIC ACIDS; PHOTO-ELECTROCATALYSIS; PT NANOPARTICLES; SOLVOTHERMAL; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; TIO;

FORMIC ACID;

EID: 84899498307     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am406040v     Document Type: Article

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