Facile synthesis of highly active PdAu nanowire networks as self-supported electrocatalyst for ethanol electrooxidation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9481-9487

  Hong, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Jin ^a,b,c   Wang, Erkang ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrooxidation; ethanol; gold; nanowire networks; palladium

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROOXIDATION; ETHANOL; GOLD; NANOWIRES; PALLADIUM; SODIUM;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ETHANOL ELECTRO-OXIDATION; ETHANOL OXIDATION REACTION; HIGH YIELD SYNTHESIS; NANOWIRE NETWORKS; POLY VINYL PYRROLIDONE; SODIUM BORO HYDRIDES;

DIRECT ETHANOL FUEL CELLS (DEFC);

EID: 84903522482     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501859k     Document Type: Article

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