A Facile Method for Synthesizing Dendritic Core-Shell Structured Ternary Metallic Aerogels and Their Enhanced Electrochemical Performances

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 7928-7934

  Shi, Qiurong ^a   Zhu, Chengzhou ^a   Li, Yijing ^b   Xia, Haibing ^b   Engelhard, Mark H ^c   Fu, Shaofang ^a   Du, Dan ^a   Lin, Yuehe ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; CROSSLINKING; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; GELATION; METALS; PLATINUM; REDUCTION; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CROSS-LINKED NETWORKS; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXYGEN REDUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; GEOMETRIC EFFECTS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84994753109     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03549     Document Type: Article

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