Recent advances on electro-oxidation of ethanol on Pt- and Pd-based catalysts: From reaction mechanisms to catalytic materials

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1507-1534

  Wang, Ye ^a   Zou, Shouzhong ^b   Cai, Wen Bin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro oxidation; Electrocatalysts; Ethanol; Mechanism; Rational design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940992885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031507     Document Type: Review

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