A composite made from palladium nanoparticles and carbon nanofibers for superior electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 181, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 797-803

  Guo, Qiaohui ^a,b   Liu, Dong ^a   Huang, Jianshe ^a   Hou, Haoqing ^b   You, Tianyan ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofiber; Electrocatalysis; Electrospinning; Formic acid oxidation; Nanocomposite; Pd nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901231225     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-014-1159-z     Document Type: Article

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