One-Pot and Facile Fabrication of Hierarchical Branched Pt-Cu Nanoparticles as Excellent Electrocatalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 5998-6003

  Cao, Yanqin ^a,b   Yang, Yong ^a   Shan, Yufeng ^a,b   Huang, Zhengren ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; hierarchical branches; one pot synthesis; Pt Cu

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FUEL CELLS; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLATINUM; POROSITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

FACILE FABRICATION; HIERARCHICAL BRANCHES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; MODIFIED POLYOL PROCESS; ONE-POT SYNTHESIS; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC);

EID: 84960510938     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11364     Document Type: Article

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