Effects of cobalt precursor on pyrolyzed carbon-supported cobalt-polypyrrole as electrocatalyst toward oxygen reduction reaction

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Yuan, Xianxia ^a   Hu, Xin Xin ^a,b   Ding, Xin Long ^a   Kong, Hai Chuan ^a   Sha, Hao Dong ^a   Lin, He ^c   Wen, Wen ^c   Shen, Guangxia ^a   Guo, Zhi ^c   Ma, Zi Feng ^a   Yang, Yong ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catalytic active site; Cobalt precursor; Non precious metal electrocatalyst; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; OXYGEN; POLYPYRROLES; PRECIOUS METALS; ROTATING DISKS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYTIC ACTIVE SITES; COBALT PRECURSORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; EXTENDED X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; NON-PRECIOUS METALS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ROTATING RING-DISK ELECTRODE;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84891441366     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-478     Document Type: Article

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