Juan M. Feliu

TL;DR: This communication reports, for the first time, the synthesis of cubic platinum nanoparticles with a very high yield using a water-in-oil microemulsion method, which unlike others, such as the colloidal method, fulfills the previous requirements.

TL;DR: The highest catalytic activity from voltammetry for ethanol oxidation was obtained with the Pt(554) electrode, which is able to break the C-C bond, but also to catalyze the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid and acetaldehyde.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of zero total charge (pztc) values for a series of stepped surfaces is estimated for the Pt(s) electrodes in perchloric acid medium.

TL;DR: In this article, an unambiguous definition of the transfer coefficient, independent of any mechanistic consideration and exclusively based on experimental data, is proposed, where the cathodic transfer coefficient α c is defined as -(RT/F)(dln|j c |/dE), where j c is the cathode current density corrected for any changes in the reac- tant concentration on the electrode surface with respect to its bulk value, E is the applied electric potential, and R, T and F have their usual significance.