Nitric acid activation of graphite granules to increase the performance of the non-catalyzed oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for MFC applications

Electrochemistry Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1547-1549

  Erable, Benjamin ^a,b   Duteanu, Narcis ^a,c   Kumar, S M Senthil ^a   Feng, Yujie ^d   Ghangrekar, Makarand M ^a,e   Scott, Keith ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Activated granules; High voltage; Microbial fuel cell; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRANULATION; GRAPHITE; NITRIC ACID; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PRECIOUS METALS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTIVATED GRANULES; BRUNAUER EMMETT TELLERS; CATALYZED OXYGEN REDUCTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN REDUCTIONS; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; HIGH VOLTAGE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

EID: 67649505369     PISSN: 13882481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2009.05.057     Document Type: Article

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