Catalytic activity of unsupported Pd-Pt nanoalloys with low Pt content towards formic acid oxidation

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 192, Issue , 2016, Pages 304-310

  Gralec, Barbara ^a   Lewera, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Formic acid oxidation; Palladium; Platinum

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC OXIDATION; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROOXIDATION; FORMIC ACID; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CATALYTIC CURRENT; FORMIC ACID ELECTROOXIDATION; FORMIC ACID OXIDATION; HALF-WAVE POTENTIAL; PD NANO PARTICLE; PD-PT NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; VOLTAMMETRIC EXPERIMENTS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84962678629     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.03.073     Document Type: Article

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