Novel mesoporous carbon supports for PEMFC catalysts

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1046-1067

  Banham, Dustin ^a,b   Feng, Fangxia ^a   Fürstenhaupt, Tobias ^c   Pei, Katie ^a   Ye, Siyu ^b   Birss, Viola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS   (Canada)

^c Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mesoporous carbon; Oxygen reduction reaction; Proton exchange membrane fuel cells; Pt C catalysts; Tafel slopes; Transmission electron tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937469060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031046     Document Type: Article

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