Small palladium islands embedded in palladium-tungsten bimetallic nanoparticles form catalytic hotspots for oxygen reduction

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hu, Guangzhi ^a   Nitze, Florian ^b   Gracia Espino, Eduardo ^a   Ma, Jingyuan ^c   Barzegar, Hamid Reza ^a   Sharifi, Tiva ^a   Jia, Xueen ^a   Shchukarev, Andrey ^a   Lu, Lu ^d   Ma, Chuansheng ^d   Yang, Guang ^d   Wagberg, Thomas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLE; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; FUEL CELL; NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REDUCTION; STABILIZATION; TUNGSTEN;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVAPORATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84924345680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6253     Document Type: Article

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