Efficient oxygen reduction catalysis by subnanometer Pt alloy nanowires

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Jiang, Kezhu ^a   Zhao, Dandan ^a   Guo, Shaojun ^b   Zhang, Xu ^c   Zhu, Xing ^a   Guo, Jun ^a   Lu, Gang ^c   Huang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COBALT ALLOYS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; NICKEL ALLOYS; PLATINUM;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; COMMON KNOWLEDGE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY SIMULATIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYSIS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SCALABLE APPROACH; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 85041743386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601705     Document Type: Article

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