Electrocatalysis of carbon black- or chitosan-functionalized activated carbon nanotubes-supported Pd with a small amount of La2O3 towards methanol oxidation in alkaline media

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 14730-14738

  Wang, Li ^a,b   Wang, Yi ^a   Li, An ^b   Yang, Yunshang ^b   Wang, Jun ^a,c   Zhao, Huiru ^a,d   Du, Xuan ^a   Qi, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activated carbon nanotubes; Chitosan; Electrocatalysts; Methanol oxidation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHITOSAN; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; METHANOL; OXIDATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

BI-FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; METHANOL OXIDATION; REDUCTION REACTION; SODIUM BORO HYDRIDES; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84906788588     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.07.076     Document Type: Article

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