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Synthesis of Platinum-nickel Nanowires and Optimization for Oxygen Reduction Performance
Published on: April 27, 2018
Tailoring the surface-oxygen defects of a tin dioxide support towards an enhanced electrocatalytic performance of
Maidhily Manikandan1, Toyokazu Tanabe2, Gubbala V Ramesh3
1National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. ABE.Hideki@nims.go.jp and Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600-025, India.
Abstract:
Tin-dioxide nanofacets (SnO2 NFs) are crystal-engineered so that oxygen defects on the maximal {113} surface are long-range ordered to give rise to a non-occupied defect band (DB) in the bandgap. SnO2 NFs-supported platinum-nanoparticles exhibit an enhanced ethanol-electrooxidation activity due to the promoted charge-transport via the DB at the metal-semiconductor interface.
