Highly active metal-free nitrogen-containing carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction synthesized by thermal treatment of polypyridine-carbon black mixtures

Electrochemistry Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 593-596

  Xia, Wei ^a   Masa, Justus ^a   Bron, Michael ^a,b   Schuhmann, Wolfgang ^a   Muhler, Martin ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metal free catalysts; Oxygen reduction; Polypyridine; Thermal treatment

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE MEDIA; CARBON CATALYSTS; METAL-FREE CATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION; POLYPYRIDINE; PT-BASED CATALYST; ROTATING DISK ELECTRODES; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD;

CARBON BLACK; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; HEAT TREATMENT; HELIUM; METALS; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PLATINUM; ROTATING DISKS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 79958103017     PISSN: 13882481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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