Electrochemically active nickel foams as support materials for nanoscopic platinum electrocatalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12046-12061

  Van Drunen, Julia ^a   Pilapil, Brandy K ^b   Makonnen, Yoseif ^a   Beauchemin, Diane ^a   Gates, Byron D ^b   Jerkiewicz, Gregory ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

alkaline water electrolysis; nickel electrocatalyst; nickel foam; platinum electocatalyst; three dimensional electrode

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; HYDROGEN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NICKEL; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN;

ALKALINE WATER ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SURFACE AREA; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; NICKEL FOAM; PLATINUM ELECTROCATALYSTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRODE;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84906253683     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501097t     Document Type: Article

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