Synthesis and characterization of Au@Pt nanoparticles with ultrathin platinum overlayers

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5982-5987

  Banerjee, Ipshita ^a,b   Kumaran, V ^a   Santhanam, Venugopal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATOMS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; FILM PREPARATION; GOLD COATINGS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONOLAYERS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHASE INTERFACES; PLATINUM;

AIR WATER INTERFACES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; PLATINUM UTILIZATION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84925262312     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5113284     Document Type: Article

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