Effect of post-synthesis nitrogen doping in nanocarbons on cathode reaction of metal-air cells

Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 337-342

  Jiang, Zinan ^a   Kato, Yuichiro ^b   Al Zubaidi, Ayar ^b   Yamamoto, Kengo ^b   Kawasaki, Shinji ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metal air battery; Nitrogen doping; Oxygen evolution reaction; Oxygen reduction reaction; Post synthesis; SWCNTs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904245867     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2014.1179     Document Type: Article

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