Catalyst-free synthesis of crumpled boron and nitrogen co-doped graphite layers with tunable bond structure for oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3313-3321

  Jin, Jutao ^a,b   Pan, Fuping ^a   Jiang, Luhua ^b   Fu, Xiaogang ^a   Liang, Aiming ^a   Wei, Zhiyang ^a   Zhang, Junyan ^a   Sun, Gongquan ^b  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

BCN sheet; catalyst free; oxygen reduction reaction; tunable bond structure

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL BONDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHITE; NANOSHEETS; NITROGEN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); UREA;

BCN SHEET; BOND STRUCTURES; CATALYST-FREE; CATALYST-FREE SYNTHESIS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG); SYNTHESIS CONDITIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84899449102     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404927n     Document Type: Article

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