Pt monolayer shell on nitrided alloy core—a path to highly stable oxygen reduction catalyst

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1321-1332

  Hu, Jue ^a,b   Kuttiyiel, Kurian A ^a   Sasaki, Kotaro ^a   Su, Dong ^a   Yang, Tae Hyun ^c   Park, Gu Gon ^c   Zhang, Chengxu ^b   Chen, Guangyu ^a   Adzic, Radoslav R ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Core shell; Electrocatalyst; Nickel nitride; ORR; Pt monolayer; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938243563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031321     Document Type: Article

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