Gold-promoted structurally ordered intermetallic palladium cobalt nanoparticles for the oxygen reduction reaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kuttiyiel, Kurian A ^a   Sasaki, Kotaro ^a   Su, Dong ^a   Wu, Lijun ^b   Zhu, Yimei ^b   Adzic, Radoslav R ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

ALKALINITY; ALLOY; CATALYST; GOLD; PALLADIUM; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM; STABILIZATION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84923325030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6185     Document Type: Article

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