Water-dispersible, sulfonated hyperbranched poly(ether-ketone) grafted multiwalled carbon nanotubes as oxygen reduction catalysts

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6345-6355

  Sohn, Gyung Joo ^a   Choi, Hyun Jung ^a   Jeon, In Yup ^a   Chang, Dong Wook ^a,b   Dai, Liming ^c   Baek, Jong Beom ^a  

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

^b Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

electrocatalyst; hyperbranched polymer; multiwalled carbon nanotube; oxygen reduction reaction; water dispersible

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; CATHODE MATERIALS; CHLOROSULFONIC ACID; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; FRIEDEL-CRAFTS ACYLATION; HYPERBRANCHED; HYPERBRANCHED POLYMERS; OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POTENTIAL VALUES; WATER AFFINITY; WATER DISPERSIBLE;

ACYLATION; CATHODES; DENDRIMERS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ETHERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); KETONES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84864196440     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301863d     Document Type: Article

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