Investigation of catalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction of Pt dispersed on boron doped graphene in acid medium

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 479, Issue , 2016, Pages 260-270

  Pullamsetty, Ashok ^a   Sundara, Ramaprabhu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Boron doped graphene (BG); Electrocatalyst; Nanoparticles (NPs); Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR); Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs); Tafel slope

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; REDUCTION; ROTATING DISKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BORON-DOPED GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL (PEMFCS); TAFEL SLOPES;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

BORON; GRAPHENE; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; POLYOL; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CURRENT DENSITY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; KINETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84977524308     PISSN: 00219797     EISSN: 10957103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.06.069     Document Type: Article

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