Highly active and stable platinum catalyst supported on porous carbon nanofibers for improved performance of PEMFC

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 177, Issue , 2015, Pages 181-189

  Wang, Yang ^a   Jin, Junhong ^a   Yang, Shenglin ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Qiao, Jinli ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrocatalyst; Membrane electrode assembly (MEA); Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR); Porous carbon nanofibers (PCNFs)

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYSTS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FUEL CELLS; MASS TRANSFER; NANOFIBERS; PLATINUM; POROUS MATERIALS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); ROTATING DISKS;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AND STABILITY; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; MASS TRANSFER RESISTANCES; MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POROUS CARBON NANOFIBERS; ROTATING DISK ELECTRODES; SINGLE CELL PERFORMANCE;

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

EID: 84941419128     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.01.134     Document Type: Article

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