Support materials for PEMFC and DMFC electrocatalysts—A review

S Sharma, BG Pollet - Journal of Power Sources, 2012 - Elsevier
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC)
have found a wide variety of commercial applications. Their performance is essentially …

Energy and environmental applications of carbon nanotubes

CW Tan, KH Tan, YT Ong, AR Mohamed… - Environmental …, 2012 - Springer
Energy and environment are major global issues inducing environmental pollution
problems. Energy generation from conventional fossil fuels has been identified as the main …

Catalytic activity of platinum–cobalt alloy nanoparticles decorated functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction in PEMFC

BP Vinayan, RI Jafri, R Nagar, N Rajalakshmi… - international journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The role of functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) decorated with platinum
nanoparticles (Pt/f-MWNTs) and platinum–cobalt alloy nanoparticles (Pt3Co/f-MWNTs) has …

Materials, morphologies and structures of MEAs in DMFCs

SK Kamarudin, N Hashim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Even though direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) were developed to support power needs,
there are still unresolved drawbacks. The main focus of this research is the membrane …

Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes decorated with Pt and PtRu nanoparticles and assessment of their electrocatalytic performance

K Kardimi, T Tsoufis, A Tomou, BJ Kooi… - international journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Novel hybrid electrocatalysts were developed based on the attachment of pre-formed
capped Pt and PtRu nanoparticles (NPs) on the external surfaces of multi-walled carbon …

Hollow nitrogen-containing core/shell fibrous carbon nanomaterials as support to platinum nanocatalysts and their TEM tomography study

C Zhou, Z Liu, X Du, DRG Mitchell, YW Mai… - Nanoscale research …, 2012 - Springer
Core/shell nanostructured carbon materials with carbon nanofiber (CNF) as the core and a
nitrogen (N)-doped graphitic layer as the shell were synthesized by pyrolysis of …

Carbon nanotubes applications: solar and fuel cells, hydrogen storage, lithium batteries, supercapacitors, nanocomposites, gas, pathogens, dyes, heavy metals and …

CW Tan, KH Tan, YT Ong, AR Mohamed… - … Chemistry for a …, 2012 - Springer
Energy and environment are major global issues inducing environmental pollution. Energy
generation from conventional fossil fuels has been identified as the main culprit of …

Syntheses and characterizations of multiwalled carbon nanotubes-supported palladium nanocomposites

WM Daoush, T Imae - Journal of Materials Research, 2012 - cambridge.org
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes/Pd nanoparticles (CNT/Pd) were prepared by different four
synthesis techniques. After the chemical oxidation of CNTs, the infrared absorption data …

Synthesis and catalytic performance of PtRuMo nanoparticles supported on graphene-carbon nanotubes nanocomposites for methanol electro-oxidation

F Ye, X Cao, L Yu, S Chen, W Lin - International Journal of Electrochemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
Graphene-carbon nanotubes (G-CNTs) nanocomposites supported PtRuMo catalyst was
synthesized by chemical reduction of metal precursors with sodium borohydride at room …

Carboxyl multi-wall carbon nanotubes supported Pt-Ni alloy nanoparticles as cathode catalyst for microbial fuel cells

Z Yan, M Wang, B Huang, J Zhao, R Liu - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
This work discusses a low-cost and high performance catalyst of the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The catalyst was formed by Pt–Ni (15 wt% Pt) …