Uranium- and thorium-doped graphene for efficient oxygen and hydrogen peroxide reduction

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7106-7114

  Sofer, Zdeněk ^a   Jankovský, Ondřej ^a   Šimek, Petr ^a   Klímová, Kateřina ^a   Macková, Anna ^b,c   Pumera, Martin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c University JEPurkine   (Czech Republic)

^d Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

actinides; electrochemistry; graphene; oxygen reduction; uranium

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PEROXIDES; SCALABILITY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CATALYTIC CENTER; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; ENERGY GENERATIONS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION; VARIOUS ATMOSPHERE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84904767850     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502026k     Document Type: Article

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