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Adsorbed water for the electro-oxidation of methanol at Pt-Ru alloy
Takahiro Yajima1, Noriaki Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki Uchida
1Graduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Takeda 4, Kofu 400-8510, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 13, 2003
Abstract:
Adsorbed water molecules which promote the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) at Pt-Ru alloy electrode are clearly detected by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy with the attenuated total reflection configuration, which directly supports the "bi-functional mechanism" for the MOR.