Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube/graphite felts as advanced electrode materials for vanadium redox flow batteries

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2164-2167

  Wang, Shuangyin ^a   Zhao, Xinsheng ^a   Cochell, Thomas ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ELECTRODES; BATTERY PERFORMANCE; DEFECT SITES; ELECTRODE PERFORMANCE; GRAPHITE FELTS; KEY FACTORS; N-DOPING; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPING; OXYGEN SPECIES; POROUS STRUCTURES; SURFACE AREA; VANADIUM IONS; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERIES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHEMISORPTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NITROGEN; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SURFACE DEFECTS;

VANADIUM;

EID: 84865089186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3008744     Document Type: Article

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