Synergy of cobalt and silver microparticles electrodeposited on glassy carbon for the electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction: An electrochemical investigation

Molecules

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 14386-14401

  Zafferoni, Claudio ^a   Cioncoloni, Giacomo ^b   Foresti, Maria Luisa ^a   Dei, Luigi ^a   Carretti, Emiliano ^a   Vizza, Francesco ^c   Lavacchi, Alessandro ^c   Innocenti, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c ICCOM CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Electrodeposition; ORR; Silver

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COBALT; GLASS; OXYGEN; SILVER;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; COBALT; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; GLASS; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SILVER;

EID: 84941578436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules200814386     Document Type: Article

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43. The crystalline nature of the catalyst before and after the oxidative/reductive treatment will be evaluated, as well as the morphological and composition characterization after a deeper study at the European Synchtrotron Radiation Facility of Grenoble with experiments that are scheduled at the end of 2015.