Assembly of Pt nanowires into cubelike superstructures supported on aligned carbon nanotubes as highly stable electrocatalysts

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Wu, Renbing, Li, Baosheng, Zhou, Kun, Chan, Siew Hwa, Tey, Ju Nie, Wei, Jun, Li, Lin, Wang, Xu, Wang, Liuying
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99150; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17441

Go nano! Cubelike Pt nanowire superstructures supported on vertically aligned bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes (see the FESEM image) are used as electrocatalysts for fuel cells. They exhibit remarkably improved stability over the commercial Pt/C catalyst made of Pt nanoparticles on amorphous carbon.