A Nickel Sublayer: An Improvement in the Electrochemical Performance of Platinum-Based Electrocatalysts as Anodes in Glucose Alkaline Fuel Cells

Subject Areas : Iranian Journal of Catalysis

Behnam Moeini ¹ , Masoumeh Ghalkhani ² , Tahereh G. Avval ³ , Matthew R. Linford ⁴ , Rasol Abdullah Mirzaie ⁵

1 - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, C100 BNSN, Provo, Utah 84602, USA|Fuel Cell Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Fuel Cell Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, C100 BNSN, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
4 - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, C100 BNSN, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
5 - Fuel Cell Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-11-17 Accepted : 2021-02-13 Published : 2021-03-01

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