Polyhedral palladium-silver alloy nanocrystals as highly active and stable electrocatalysts for the formic acid oxidation reaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fu, Geng Tao ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b   Chen, Yu ^b   Tang, Ya Wen ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84940834548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13703     Document Type: Article

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