A direct grain-boundary-activity correlation for CO electroreduction on Cu nanoparticles

ACS Central Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 169-174

  Feng, Xiaofeng ^a   Jiang, Kaili ^b   Fan, Shoushan ^b   Kanan, Matthew W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ETHANOL; ETHYLENE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GRAPHICS; NANOPARTICLES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

ELECTRO REDUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SURFACE TERMINATION;

COPPER;

EID: 84987970890     PISSN: 23747943     EISSN: 23747951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00022     Document Type: Article

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