Engineering manganese oxide/nanocarbon hybrid materials for oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 718-725

  Feng, Ju ^a   Liang, Yongye ^a   Wang, Hailiang ^a   Li, Yanguang ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Zhou, Jigang ^b   Wang, Jian ^b   Regier, Tom ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; Manganese oxide; nanocarbon; oxygen reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867862476     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0256-8     Document Type: Article

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