Electrochemical behavior of N and Ar implanted highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrates and activity toward oxygen reduction reaction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 477-487

  Favaro, Marco ^a   Perini, Lorenzo ^a   Agnoli, Stefano ^a   Durante, Christian ^a   Granozzi, Gaetano ^a   Gennaro, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doped HOPG; Electrocatalysis; Ferrocyanide; Nitrogen functional groups; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFECTS; DOPED HOPG; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTRON TRANSFER KINETICS; FERROCYANIDE; FOUR ELECTRONS; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; MODIFIED ELECTRODES; MORPHOLOGICAL DEFECTS; MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; NITROGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; ONSET POTENTIAL; OXIDATION OF FE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; REDOX PROBE; STANDARD RATE CONSTANT;

ARGON; CHLORINE; DEFECTS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAPHITE; ION IMPLANTATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE ELECTRODES;

EID: 84870667610     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2012.10.100     Document Type: Article

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