Surface engineering of hierarchical platinum-cobalt nanowires for efficient electrocatalysis

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bu, Lingzheng ^a   Guo, Shaojun ^b   Zhang, Xu ^c   Shen, Xuan ^d   Su, Dong ^d   Lu, Gang ^c   Zhu, Xing ^a   Yao, Jianlin ^a   Guo, Jun ^a   Huang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; NANOWIRE; OXYGEN; PLATINUM;

ALCOHOL; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COBALT ISOTOPE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROKINESIS; ENERGY USE; FUEL CELL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OXIDATION; PLATINUM; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE ENERGY;

ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; NANOCATALYSIS; NANOENGINEERING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84976633654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11850     Document Type: Article

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