Shear flow assisted decoration of carbon nano-onions with platinum nanoparticles
By Goh, Yuhan A.; Chen, Xianjue; Yasin, Faizah Md; Eggers, Paul K.; Boulos, Ramiz A.; Wang, Xiaolin; Chua, Hui Tong & Raston, Colin L.
Published in Chem. Commun.
The Royal Society of Chemistry
2013
Abstract
Aqueous based controlled decoration of platinum nanoparticles on plasma treated carbon nano-onions (CNOs) occurs within the shear flow generated by a vortex fluidic device (VFD), using ascorbic acid as the reducing agent, with the electrocatalytic potential of the resulting Pt-NPs@CNOs nano-composites demonstrated.