Facile fabrication of PtCuAu nanoparticles modified reduced graphene oxide with high electrocatalytic activity toward formic acid oxidation

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 467, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 211-215

  Zhang, Ke ^a   Wang, Huiwen ^a   Wang, Caiqin ^a   Yang, Beibei ^a   Ren, Fangfang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Du, Yukou ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Formic acid electrooxidation; Graphene; PtCuAu nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOXIDATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FORMIC ACID; FUEL CELLS; GLASSY CARBON; GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FORMIC ACID ELECTROOXIDATION; GLASSY CARBON ELECTRODES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS (FAFC);

COPPER; FORMIC ACID; GOLD; GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CURRENT DENSITY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROOXIDATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT; NANOFABRICATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84949116261     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.11.059     Document Type: Article

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