A graduate student in chemical engineering

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The potential of graphite nanofiber supported platinum catalysts as an electrode for fuel cell applications was investigated using the electrochemical oxidation of methanol at 40 °C as a probe reaction.

Source:

9] CA Bessel, K Laubernds, NM Rodriguez, RTK Baker Graphite nanofibers as an electrode for fuel cell applications. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105 (2001), pp 1115 – 1118

Writer’s text:

CA Bessel et al. [9] have evaluated various types of graphite nanofiber GNF) supported platinum catalysts as an electrode for fuel cell applications using the electrochemical oxidation of methanol at 40˚C.

Writer’s comment:

Graphite nanofibre , so the reason of using GNF here is I will be using media think somewhere else like GNF, so I have to usually tell the reader that graphite nanofibre supported, electrode, yeah fuel cell applications, I think I almost have used the same words, here you see” as a probe reaction “, I have not used these words. I have not used “as a probe reaction”…  If you see ”electrochemical oxidation of methanol”, so I cannot change it… looks like in the scientific world I can’t