Spinel-type lithium cobalt oxide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Maiyalagan, Thandavarayan ^a   Jarvis, Karalee A ^a   Therese, Soosairaj ^a   Ferreira, Paulo J ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; LITHIUM; OXIDE; OXYGEN;

CATALYSIS; COBALT; ELECTROKINESIS; LITHIUM; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; SPINEL;

A WAVE; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN ENHANCEMENT RATIO; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; REDUCTION; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84901504231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4949     Document Type: Article

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