Pd Nanoparticles deposited on nitrogen-doped HOPG: New Insights into the Pd-catalyzed Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-101

  Ju, Wenbo ^a   Favaro, Marco ^b   Durante, Christian ^b   Perini, Lorenzo ^b   Agnoli, Stefano ^b   Schneider, Oliver ^a   Stimming, Ulrich ^a,c   Granozzi, Gaetano ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c TUM CREATE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Nitrogen doped HOPG; Oxygen reduction reaction; Substrate effect; XPS

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ION IMPLANTATION; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC SYSTEM; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; NITROGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; NITROGEN-DOPED; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATE EFFECTS;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84905715420     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.06.141     Document Type: Article

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