Highly nitrogen-doped mesoscopic carbons as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 2, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 20030-20037

  Hung, Chin Te ^a   Yu, Ningya ^b   Chen, Chia Ting ^a,c   Wu, Pei Hao ^a   Han, Xiaoxiang ^d   Kao, Yu Siang ^a,e   Liu, Tuan Chi ^e   Chu, Yueying ^f   Deng, Feng ^f   Zheng, Anmin ^f   Liu, Shang Bin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^f Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NITROGEN; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; LONG TERM STABILITY; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; METHANOL CROSSOVER EFFECTS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; P123 TRIBLOCK COPOLYMERS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

EID: 84910122463     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta04403g     Document Type: Article

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