
%0 Journal Article
%A Kennedy, BJ 
%A Smith, AW 
%A Wagner, FE 
%T Catalytic Oxidation of Methanol by Ruthenium Oxides
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1990/05/01
%V 43
%N 5
%P 913-921
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9900913
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9900913 
%X The electrocatalytic behaviour of carbon-supported ruthenium oxide electrodes for oxygen evolution and methanol oxidation in acid solutions is reported. Physical characterization of the electrodes by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron and 99Ru Mossbauer  spectroscopies indicated the ruthenium to be present as a mixture of RuIV oxides including the stable rutile phase. Electrochemical studies show that a RuVI species promotes the catalytic oxidation of methanol, whilst surface-bound RuO4 is involved in the oxygen evolution reaction. 
