Titanium-niobium oxides as non-noble metal cathodes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1289-1303

  Ishihara, Akimitsu ^a   Tamura, Yuko ^a   Chisaka, Mitsuharu ^b   Ohgi, Yoshiro ^c   Kohno, Yuji ^a   Matsuzawa, Koichi ^a   Mitsushima, Shigenori ^a   Ota, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Non platinum cathode; Oxygen reduction reaction; Polymer electrolyte fuel cells; Titanium niobium oxides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937418768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031289     Document Type: Article

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