1. Synthesis of flower-shape palladium nanostructures on graphene oxide for electrocatalytic applications.
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Wang, Qiyu, Cui, Xiaoqiang, Guan, Weiming, Zheng, Weitao, Chen, Jianli, Zheng, Xianliang, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Chang, Xue, Tianyu, Wang, Haitao, Jin, Zhao, and Teng, Hong
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PALLADIUM catalysts , *NANOSTRUCTURES , *GRAPHENE oxide , *ELECTROCATALYSIS , *INORGANIC synthesis , *METALLIC surfaces , *ATOMIC force microscopy , *FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy - Abstract
Abstract: Flower-shape palladium nanostructures have been synthesized on the surface of graphene oxide by a simple effective method in the absence of any reducing chemical reagent. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), and Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR) were used to characterize GO. The flower-shape palladium/Graphene oxide (FS-Pd/GO) nanocomposites are characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD). As-prepared FS-Pd/GO nanocomposites exhibited excellent performance on the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the glucose oxidation reaction. This method may open a general approach for preparing metal nanostructures on GO sheets for applications in fuel cells, biosensing and other fields. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2013
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