Identifying the active site in nitrogen-doped graphene for the VO 2+/VO2+ redox reaction

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4764-4773

  Jin, Jutao ^a,b   Fu, Xiaogang ^a,c   Liu, Qiao ^a,b   Liu, Yanru ^a   Wei, Zhiyang ^a   Niu, Kexing ^a   Zhang, Junyan ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

VO 2+ VO2 + couple reaction; graphene sheets; nitrogen doping; redox flow battery

Indexed keywords

[VO]2+/[VO2] + COUPLE REACTION; CATALYTIC ACTIVE CENTERS; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; GRAPHENE SHEETS; NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN-DOPING; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERIES;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; REDOX REACTIONS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; UREA; UREA ELECTRODES;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84879645721     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3046709     Document Type: Article

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