Functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube-based fuel cell benchmarked against US DOE 2017 technical targets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jha, Neetu ^a   Ramesh, Palanisamy ^b   Bekyarova, Elena ^a,b   Tian, Xiaojuan ^a   Wang, Feihu ^a   Itkis, Mikhail E ^a,b   Haddon, Robert C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Carbon Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; MATERIALS TESTING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84880833255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02257     Document Type: Article

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