Microstructural studies of platinum nanoparticles dispersed in Nafion membrane
                
                        
                        A. BRAGARU1,*
                            ,
                        
                        E. VASILE1,
                        
                        M. DANILA1,
                        
                        M. KUSKO1,
                        
                        M. SIMION1,
                        
                        A. IORDANESCU1,
                        
                        R. PASCU1,
                        
                        F. CRACIUNOIU1,
                        
                        M. LECA2
                        
                    
                    Affiliation
                    
                        
                        - IMT Bucharest, 126A, Erou Iancu Nicolae Street, 077190, Romania
 
                        
                        - University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Regina Elisabeta Street, Romania
 
                        
                    
                     
        
        Abstract
        The aim of this work was to prepare a nanocomposite membrane based on platinum nanoparticles dispersed onto/inside of Nafion, by in situ reduction of platinum precursor. Two types of the reducing agent (sodium borohydride) concentrations have been used in order to investigate the influence over platinum nanoparticles size and distribution, performering complementary microstructural analysis, e.g. High Resolution-Transmission Electron Microscopy (HR-TEM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)..
        Keywords
        Nafion, Platinum nanoparticles, Nanocomposite membrane.
        Citation
        A. BRAGARU, E. VASILE, M. DANILA, M. KUSKO, M. SIMION, A. IORDANESCU, R. PASCU, F. CRACIUNOIU, M. LECA, Microstructural studies of platinum nanoparticles dispersed in Nafion membrane, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 11, November 2011, pp.1190-1195 (2011).
        Submitted at: Sept. 13, 2011
 
        Accepted at: Nov. 23, 2011