Influence of different carbon nanostructures on the electrocatalytic activity and stability of Pt supported electrocatalysts

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 8215-8224

  Stamatin, Serban N ^a   Borghei, Maryam ^b   Andersen, Shuang Ma ^a   Veltze, Sune ^c   Ruiz, Virginia ^d   Kauppinen, Esko ^b   Skou, Eivind M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Centre for Electrochemical Technologies   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofibers; Carbon nanotubes; Fuel cell; Oxygen reduction reaction; Platinum nanoparticles; Stability

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHITIZATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRONS; ROTATING DISKS; TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ACCELERATED AGEING TESTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AND STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; SUPPORTED ELECTROCATALYSTS; THIN-FILM ROTATING DISK ELECTRODES;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84900431497     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.03.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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