Oxygen reduction in PEM fuel cell conditions: Heat-treated non-precious metal-N4 macrocycles and beyond

N4-Macrocyclic Metal Complexes

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 83-147

  Dodelet, Jean Pol ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

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