Effect of purification of carbon nanotubes on their electrocatalytic properties for oxygen reduction in acid solution

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4031-4039

  Kruusenberg, Ivar ^a   Alexeyeva, Nadezda ^a   Tammeveski, Kaido ^a   Kozlova, Jekaterina ^a   Matisen, Leonard ^a   Sammelselg, Väino ^a   Solla Gullón, Jose ^b   Feliu, Juan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MEDIA; ACID SOLUTIONS; ACTIVE CATALYST; AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; ELECTRO REDUCTION; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GC ELECTRODE; GLASSY CARBON ELECTRODES; METAL CATALYST; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; ROTATING DISK ELECTRODES; SINGLE-WALLED; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

CATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GLASSY CARBON; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PURIFICATION; ROTATING DISKS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79960003569     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.05.048     Document Type: Article

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