Autocatalysis and selective oxidative etching induced synthesis of platinum-copper bimetallic alloy nanodendrites electrocatalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7301-7308

  Gong, Mingxing ^b   Fu, Gengtao ^b   Chen, Yu ^a   Tang, Yawen ^b   Lu, Tianhong ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalytic activity; methanol oxidation reaction; nanodendrites; platinum copper alloy; polyallylamine

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ETCHING; METHANOL; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLATINUM;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AND STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; NANODENDRITES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POLY(ALLYLAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE); POLYALLYLAMINE;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84901660298     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500656j     Document Type: Article

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