Controlled Growth of Platinum Nanowire Arrays on Sulfur Doped Graphene as High Performance Electrocatalyst

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 2431
• Main Authors: Wang, Rongyue, Higgins, Drew C., Hoque, Md Ariful, Lee, DongUn, Hassan, Fathy, Chen, Zhongwei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.08.2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/301/299/886; 639/301/357/1016; 639/925/357/551; 639/925/918/1052; Catalysts; Composite materials; Electrochemistry; Energy conversion; Humanities and Social Sciences; Methanol; multidisciplinary; Nanotechnology; Nanowires; Nucleation; Oxidation; Physical properties; Platinum; Science; Sulfur

Graphene supported Pt nanostructures have great potential to be used as catalysts in electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies; however the simultaneous control of Pt morphology and dispersion, along with ideally tailoring the physical properties of the catalyst support properties h...