Preparation of multi-walled carbon nanotube/amino-terminated ionic liquid arrays and their electrocatalysis towards oxygen reduction

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 672-681

  Wang, Zhijuan ^a,b   Latonen, Rose Marie ^a   Kvarnström, Carita ^a,c   Ivaska, Ari ^a   Niu, Li ^a,b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arrays; Electrocatalysis; Ionic liquid; Multi walled carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

AFM; ARRAYS; DROP-CAST; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FTIR; GLASSY CARBON ELECTRODES; OXYGEN REDUCTION; RAMAN TECHNIQUES;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GLASS MEMBRANE ELECTRODES; IONIC LIQUIDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SILICON;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 79951670792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3010672     Document Type: Article

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