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Nanocrystalline intermetallics on mesoporous carbon for direct formic acid fuel cell anodes

 

Nanocrystalline intermetallics on mesoporous carbon for direct formic acid fuel cell anodes

Nature Chemistry 2, 286 (2010). doi:10.1038/nchem.553

Authors: Xiulei Ji, Kyu Tae Lee, Reanne Holden, Lei Zhang, Jiujun Zhang, Gianluigi A. Botton, Martin Couillard & Linda F. Nazar

Formic acid fuel cells require nanosized intermetallic nanoparticles as anode catalysts, but current techniques are poor at producing the small size required. Now, surface-modified ordered mesoporous carbons have been used to produce nanocrystallites as small as 1.5 nm that are extremely active catalysts.


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