PdxCoy nanoparticle/carbon nanofiber composites with enhanced electrocatalytic properties

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1825-1829

  Liu, Dong ^a   Guo, Qiaohui ^a   Hou, Haoqing ^b   Niwa, Osamu ^c   You, Tianyan ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

alloy nanoparticle; carbon nanofibers; embedded nanostructure; formic acid oxidation

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FORMIC ACID; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES;

ALLOY NANOPARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AND STABILITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; FORMIC ACID OXIDATION; FUEL CELL APPLICATION; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84902125795     PISSN: 21555435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cs5000153     Document Type: Article

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