Direct observation of the oxygenated species during oxygen reduction on a platinum fuel cell cathode

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Casalongue, Hernan Sanchez ^a,b   Kaya, Sarp ^a,b   Viswanathan, Venkatasubramanian ^a,c   Miller, Daniel J ^a   Friebel, Daniel ^a,b   Hansen, Heine A ^a,c   Nørskov, Jens K ^a,c   Nilsson, Anders ^a,b,d   Ogasawara, Hirohito ^a,d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; PLATINUM NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; OXIDATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM FUEL CELL CATHODE; REVERSAL POTENTIAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84903778945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3817     Document Type: Article

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