Sulfur, trace nitrogen and iron codoped hierarchically porous carbon foams as synergistic catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 21454-21460

  Guo, Zhaoyan ^a   Jiang, Congcong ^a   Teng, Chao ^a   Ren, Guangyuan ^a   Zhu, Ying ^a   Jiang, Lei ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

heteroatoms codoped carbon foams; hierarchically porous structures; oxygen reduction electrocatalysts; synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; CARBON; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; COSTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; IRON; METAL-AIR BATTERIES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POROSITY; SULFUR;

CO-DOPED; FOUR-ELECTRON REDUCTION; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS CARBONS; MOLECULAR REARRANGEMENT; OXYGEN REDUCTION; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIPHENE); SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

FOAMS;

EID: 84917735886     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506459f     Document Type: Article

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