Facile synthesis of PtCu nanowires with enhanced electrocatalytic activity

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2308-2316

  Hong, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Jin ^a,c   Wang, Erkang ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

activity; copper; electrooxidation; nanowires; platinum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937970586     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0741-y     Document Type: Article

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