Beneficial Role of Copper in the Enhancement of Durability of Ordered Intermetallic PtFeCu Catalyst for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 16311-16321

  Arumugam, Balamurugan ^a,b   Tamaki, Takanori ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Takeo ^a,b  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

durability; ordered intermetallic; ORR; polymer electrolyte fuel cell; PtFeCu catalyst

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DISSOLUTION; DURABILITY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FUEL CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

BIMETALLIC CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC OXYGEN REDUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE SURFACE AREAS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ORR; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84938577765     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03137     Document Type: Article

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