Exploring the active sites of nitrogen-doped graphene as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 15996-16005

  Ouyang, Wenpeng ^a   Zeng, Dongrong ^a   Yu, Xiang ^a   Xie, Fangyan ^b   Zhang, Weihong ^b   Chen, Jian ^b   Yan, Jing ^a   Xie, Fangjing ^c   Wang, Lei ^d   Meng, Hui ^a   Yuan, Dingsheng ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guangzhou Institute of Standardization   (China)

^d HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuel cell; Graphene; Nitrogen doped; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PRECIOUS METALS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITIC LAYERS; NITROGEN CONTENT; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN GROUP; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPING; NON-NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS; X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY SPECTRA;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84908250952     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.01.045     Document Type: Article

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