Intimately coupled hybrid of graphitic carbon nitride nanoflakelets with reduced graphene oxide for supporting Pd nanoparticles: A stable nanocatalyst with high catalytic activity towards formic acid and methanol electrooxidation

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 200, Issue , 2016, Pages 131-141

  Zhang, Wenyao ^a   Yao, Qiushi ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^a   Fu, Yongsheng ^a   Deng, Kaiming ^a   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; formic acid oxidation; graphene; graphitic carbon nitride nanoflakelets; methanol oxidation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROOXIDATION; FORMIC ACID; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; IONIZATION OF GASES; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIDES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; YARN;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE SURFACE AREAS; FORMIC ACID OXIDATION; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; METHANOL OXIDATION; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS (FAFC);

EID: 84962367745     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.03.169     Document Type: Article

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