Global experts provide an authoritative source of information on the use of electrochemical fuel cells, and in particular discuss the use of nanomaterials to enhance the performance of existing energy systems. The book covers the state of the art in the design, preparation, and engineering of nanoscale functional materials as effective catalysts for fuel cell chemistry, highlights recent progress in electrocatalysis at both fuel cell anode and cathode, and details perspectives and challenges in future research.Chapter 1: Electrochemistry fundamentals: nanomaterials evaluation and fuel cells
Chapter 2: Recent Advances in the Use of Shape-Controlled Metal Nanoparticles in fuel cell electrocatalysis
Chapter 3: Pt-Containing Heterogeneous Nanomaterials for Methanol oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reactions
Chapter 4: Synthesis and Electrocatalysis of Pt-Pd Bimetallic Nanocrystals for Fuel Cells
Chapter 5: Integrated Studies of Au@Pt and Ru@Pt Core-Shell Nanoparticles by in situ Electrochemical NMR, ATR-SEIRAS, and SERS
Chapter 6: Recent Development of Platinum-based Nanocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis
Chapter 7: Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity of Nanoparticle Catalysts in Oxygen Reduction by Interfacial Engineering
Chapter 8: Primary oxide latent storage and spillover for reversible electrocatalysis in oxygen and hydrogen electrode reactions
Chapter 9: Metal-organic frameworks as materials for fuel cell technologies
Chapter 10: Sonoelectrochemical Production of Fuel Cell Nanomaterials
Chapter 11: Direct Ethanol fuel cell on carbon supported Pt based nanocatalysts
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