Nanoporous gyroid platinum with high catalytic activity from block copolymer templates via electroless plating

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Cheng, Chung Fu ^a   Hsueh, Han Yu ^a   Lai, Chih Huang ^a   Pan, Chun Jern ^b   Hwang, Bing Joe ^b   Hu, Chi Chang ^a   Ho, Rong Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROLESS PLATING; NANOSTRUCTURES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BLOCK COPOLYMER TEMPLATES; CRYSTALLINE FACETS; DEGRADABLE BLOCK COPOLYMER; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; NANOPOROUS PLATINUM; NANOPOROUS POLYMERS; NETWORK STRUCTURES;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84990967210     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.13     Document Type: Article

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