Tiwari Jitendra N, Pan Fu-Ming, Tiwari Rajanish N, Nandi S K
Department of Materials science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 300, Republic of China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Dec 28(48):6516-8. doi: 10.1039/b813935k. Epub 2008 Nov 6.
A two-dimensional continuous Pt island network was successfully synthesized by pulse-potentiostatic electrodeposition on a flat silicon substrate, which showed markedly enhanced catalytic activity toward methanol electrooxidation and high CO tolerance, probably due to the synergistic effect of the Pt island catalyst and surrounding SiO(2) surface layer.