Facile electrodeposition of flower-like PMo12-Pt/rGO composite with enhanced electrocatalytic activity towards methanol oxidation

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1275-1288

  Wang, Xiaoying ^a   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   He, Xiaolei ^a   Ma, Ai ^a   Le, Lijuan ^a   Lin, Shen ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrodeposition; Methanol electrocatalytic oxidation; Phosphomolybdic acid; Reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937406772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031275     Document Type: Article

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