Ketjenblack carbon supported amorphous manganese oxides nanowires as highly efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline solutions

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5362-5366

  Lee, Jang Soo ^a   Park, Gi Su ^a   Lee, Ho Il ^b   Kim, Sun Tai ^a   Cao, Ruiguo ^a   Liu, Meilin ^c   Cho, Jaephil ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Hyundai Heavy Industries   (South Korea)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

amorphous manganese oxide nanowire; electrical conductivity; Ketjenblack carbon; Oxygen reduction reaction; Zn air battery

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; AIR CATHODE; AIR ELECTRODES; ALKALINE SOLUTIONS; AMORPHOUS MANGANESE OXIDES; COMPOSITE ELECTRODE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH DENSITY; KETJENBLACK; LARGE SURFACE AREA; MATRIX; MICROSCOPIC FEATURES; OXYGEN ADSORPTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PEAK POWER DENSITIES; POLYOL METHODS; ZN-AIR BATTERY;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GAS ADSORPTION; MANGANESE; NANOWIRES; OXIDES; OXYGEN; SURFACE DEFECTS; ZINC;

MANGANESE OXIDE;

CARBON; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOWIRE; OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; OXYGEN;

EID: 83655190554     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2029078     Document Type: Article

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