Universal electrode interface for electrocatalytic oxidation of liquid fuels

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 18055-18062

  Liao, Hualing ^a   Qiu, Zhipeng ^a   Wan, Qijin ^a   Wang, Zhijie ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Yang, Nianjun ^a,b  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; electrocatalytic oxidation; fuel cells; liquid fuels; oxidation efficiency; palladium nanoparticles; reaction mechanism

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; COATED WIRE ELECTRODES; ELECTRIC WELDING; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FUEL CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIQUID FUELS; LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PROPANOL;

CARBONACEOUS SPECIES; ELECTRO-CATALYTIC OXIDATION; ELECTRODE INTERFACE; NEGATIVE POTENTIAL; OXIDATION EFFICIENCY; OXIDATION MECHANISMS; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLES; REACTION MECHANISM;

OXIDATION;

EID: 84908199183     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504926r     Document Type: Article

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