Adsorbed water for the electro-oxidation of methanol at Pt-Ru alloy.
Adsorbed water molecules which promote the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) at Pt-Ru alloy electrode are clearly detected by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy with the attenuated total reflection configuration, which directly supports the "bi-functional mechanism" for the MOR.
Yajima
Takahiro
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Graduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Takeda 4, Kofu 400-8510, Japan.
Wakabayashi
Noriaki
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Uchida
Hiroyuki
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Watanabe
Masahiro
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