Ordered Pd2Ge Intermetallic Nanoparticles as Highly Efficient and Robust Catalyst for Ethanol Oxidation

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 7459-7467

  Sarkar, Sumanta ^a   Jana, Rajkumar ^a   Suchitra, ^a   Waghmare, Umesh V ^a   Kuppan, Balamurugan ^b   Sampath, S ^b   Peter, Sebastian C ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; FREE RADICALS; GERMANIUM; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYST SURFACES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC POSITION; D-BAND CENTER MODEL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVE SURFACE AREAS; INTERMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES; INTERMETALLIC PHASE; POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION (PXRD); SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84946854842     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03546     Document Type: Article

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