Nitrogen self-doped porous carbon from surplus sludge as metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 14911-14918

  Zhou, Kai ^a   Zhou, Weijia ^a   Liu, Xiaojun ^a   Wang, Yan ^a,b   Wan, Jinquan ^a,b   Chen, Shaowei ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanosheet; carbonization; CO poisoning; methanol crossover; nitrogen adsorption desorption

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONIZATION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CARBON NANOSHEETS; CO POISONING; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; METHANOL CROSSOVER; MICROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT; NITROGEN ADSORPTION;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84907817121     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502215t     Document Type: Article

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