Electrocatalytic activity and durability of Pt-decorated non-covalently functionalized graphitic structures

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1622-1635

  Negro, Emanuela ^a   Stassi, Alessandro ^b   Baglio, Vincenzo ^b   Aricò, Antonino S ^b   Koper, Ger J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon corrosion; Carbon nanofibers; Durability; Fuel cell; Oxygen reduction reaction; Pt catalyst

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942362102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031622     Document Type: Article

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