Hierarchically porous N-doped carbon nanoflakes: Large-scale facile synthesis and application as an oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst with high activity

Carbon

Volumn 78, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-69

  Ning, Rui ^a,b   Ge, Chenjiao ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Tian, Jingqi ^a,b   Asiri, Abdullah M ^c   Alamry, Khalid A ^c   Li, Chang Ming ^d   Sun, Xuping ^a,c  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

1 ,8-DIAMINONAPHTHALENE; CARBON NANOFLAKES; FACILE SYNTHESIS; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; MESOPORE-FORMING AGENTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PT/C CATALYSTS; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE;

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EID: 84906327283     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.06.048     Document Type: Article

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