Simultaneous doping of boron and nitrogen into a carbon to enhance its oxygen reduction activity in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3358-3361

  Ozaki, Jun ichi ^a   Anahara, Tomonori ^a   Kimura, Naofumi ^a   Oya, Asao ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Carbonization; Doped carbons; Electrochemical properties; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750348151     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.08.022     Document Type: Letter

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