Observation of active sites for oxygen reduction reaction on nitrogen-doped multilayer graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6856-6862

  Xing, Tan ^a   Zheng, Yao ^b   Li, Lu Hua ^a   Cowie, Bruce C C ^c   Gunzelmann, Daniel ^a   Qiao, Shi Zhang ^b   Huang, Shaoming ^d   Chen, Ying ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

^d WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fuel cells; nitrogen doped (N doped) graphene; oxygen reduction reactions; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; MULTILAYERS; NITROGEN; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CATALYTIC MECHANISMS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; N-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84904767332     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501506p     Document Type: Article

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