Stimulation of electro-oxidation catalysis by bulk-structural transformation in intermetallic ZrPt3 nanoparticles

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 16124-16130

  Ramesh, Gubbala V ^a   Kodiyath, Rajesh ^a   Tanabe, Toyokazu ^a   Manikandan, Maidhily ^a,b   Fujita, Takeshi ^c,d   Umezawa, Naoto ^a,c   Ueda, Shigenori ^a   Ishihara, Shinsuke ^a   Ariga, Katsuhiko ^a,d   Abe, Hideki ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulk structural transformation; Catalysts; Intermetallic compounds; Polymer membrane electrolyte fuel cells; Surface energy

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTROOXIDATION; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; INTERMETALLICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANOMETALLICS; POLYELECTROLYTES; TUNING; ZIRCALOY;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; COMPOSITIONAL TUNING; HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES; LONG TERM STABILITY; ORGANOMETALLIC PRECURSORS; POLYMER MEMBRANE ELECTROLYTE; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84912057004     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504147q     Document Type: Article

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