Resilient High Catalytic Performance of Platinum Nanocatalysts with Porous Graphene Envelope

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5947-5957

  Kim, Heeyeon ^a   Robertson, Alex W ^b   Kim, Sang Ouk ^c   Kim, Jong Min ^b   Warner, Jamie H ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

catalysis; fuel cells; graphene; nanoparticle; platinum; TEM

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; METAL FUELS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; HIGH CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; NANOPARTICLE CATALYSTS; NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS; SINGLE-STEP SYNTHESIS; VAPORIZATION PROCESS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84934922005     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00678     Document Type: Article

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