Engineering stable electrocatalysts by synergistic stabilization between carbide cores and Pt shells.


Journal

Nature materials
ISSN: 1476-4660
Titre abrégé: Nat Mater
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101155473

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2020
Historique:
received: 19 08 2018
accepted: 07 11 2019
pubmed: 18 12 2019
medline: 18 12 2019
entrez: 18 12 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Core-shell particles with earth-abundant cores represent an effective design strategy for improving the performance of noble metal catalysts, while simultaneously reducing the content of expensive noble metals

Identifiants

pubmed: 31844277
doi: 10.1038/s41563-019-0555-5
pii: 10.1038/s41563-019-0555-5
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

287-291

Subventions

Organisme : Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
ID : 03ET6080A
Organisme : Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
ID : 03ET6080A
Organisme : Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
ID : 03ET6080A

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Auteurs

Daniel Göhl (D)

Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Aaron Garg (A)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Paul Paciok (P)

Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.

Karl J J Mayrhofer (KJJ)

Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Erlangen, Germany.

Marc Heggen (M)

Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.

Yang Shao-Horn (Y)

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Rafal E Dunin-Borkowski (RE)

Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.

Yuriy Román-Leshkov (Y)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. yroman@mit.edu.

Marc Ledendecker (M)

Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany. m.ledendecker@mpie.de.

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