Metal-support interaction in platinum and palladium nanoparticles loaded on nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon for oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1170-1179

  Perini, Lorenzo ^a   Durante, Christian ^a   Favaro, Marco ^a   Perazzolo, Valentina ^a   Agnoli, Stefano ^a   Schneider, Oliver ^b   Granozzi, Gaetano ^a   Gennaro, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Mesoporous carbon; Nitrogen doping; Oxygen reduction reaction; Palladium; Platinum

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CARBON; CATALYSTS; DISPERSIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; PLATINUM METALS; POROUS MATERIALS; REDUCTION; ROTATING DISKS; SLOPE STABILITY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; MESOPOROUS CARBON; METAL-SUPPORT INTERACTIONS; NITROGEN-DOPED MESOPOROUS CARBONS; NITROGEN-DOPING; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOEMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84921443877     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506916y     Document Type: Article

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