Crystalline Control of {111} Bounded Pt3Cu Nanocrystals: Multiply-Twinned Pt3Cu Icosahedra with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7634-7640

  Sun, Xiuhui ^a   Jiang, Kezhu ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Guo, Shaojun ^b   Huang, Xiaoqing ^a,c  

^a Department of Polymer Science and Engineering   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

copper; electrocatalyst; icosahedron; Platinum; twin defect

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; COPPER; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFECTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOCRYSTALS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ICOSAHEDRON; METALLIC NANOCRYSTALS; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES;

COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 84938125690     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02986     Document Type: Article

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