Ultrathin dendritic Pt3Cu triangular pyramid caps with enhanced electrocatalytic activity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 17748-17752

  Kuang, Yun ^a   Cai, Zhao ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   He, Dongsheng ^b,c   Yan, Xiuling ^d   Bi, Yongmin ^a   Li, Yaping ^a   Li, Ziyou ^b   Sun, Xiaoming ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anti CO poisoning; dendritic pyramid cap; fuel oxidation; Pt3Cu alloy; ultrathin branch

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; ELECTROOXIDATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLATINUM ALLOYS;

CO POISONING; DENDRITIC PYRAMID CAP; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; FUEL OXIDATION; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; METALLIC COMPONENT; REDUCTION KINETICS; ULTRA-THIN;

COPPER METALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84908192646     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5041412     Document Type: Article

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