Enhancing the electrocatalytic property of hollow structured platinum nanoparticles for methanol oxidation through a hybrid construction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Feng, Yan ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^a   Ye, Feng ^a   Tan, Qiangqiang ^a   Yang, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

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EID: 84906657329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06204     Document Type: Article

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