Nitrogen-doped graphene supported highly dispersed palladium-lead nanoparticles for synergetic enhancement of ethanol electrooxidation in alkaline medium

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 152, Issue , 2015, Pages 68-74

  Wu, Peng ^a,b,c   Huang, Yiyin ^b,c   Zhou, Liqun ^a   Wang, Yaobing ^b,c   Bu, Yakun ^b,c   Yao, Jiannian ^d  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline medium; Ethanol oxidation; Nitrogen doped graphene; Palladium lead binary catalyst

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AGGLOMERATION; CATALYSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DURABILITY; ELECTROOXIDATION; ETHANOL; LEAD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PALLADIUM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ALKALINE MEDIUM; BINARY CATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ETHANOL ELECTRO-OXIDATION; ETHANOL OXIDATION; NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE; ONE-STEP REDUCTION; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84911475795     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.110     Document Type: Article

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