A Strategy for Fabricating Porous PdNi@Pt Core-shell Nanostructures and Their Enhanced Activity and Durability for the Methanol Electrooxidation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Xinyu ^a   Xu, Guangrui ^b   Chen, Yu ^b   Lu, Tianhong ^a   Tang, Yawen ^a   Xing, Wei ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

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EID: 84929469040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07619     Document Type: Article

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