Facile synthesis of silver nanoparticles supported on three dimensional graphene oxide/carbon black composite and its application for oxygen reduction reaction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 168-174

  Yuan, Lizhi ^a,b   Jiang, Luhua ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b   Xia, Zhangxun ^a,b   Wang, Suli ^a   Sun, Gongquan ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon black; Electrocatalyst; graphene oxide; Oxygen reduction reaction; Silver

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLES; SPECTROMETERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROMETERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER; GRAPHENE OXIDES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; TETRAMETHYL AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHENE; ULTRA VIOLET-VISIBLE;

SILVER;

EID: 84901409639     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.04.137     Document Type: Article

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