Tunable ternary (N, P, B)-doped porous nanocarbons and their catalytic properties for oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 22297-22304

  Zhao, Shunyan ^a   Liu, Juan ^a   Li, Chuanxi ^a   Ji, Wenbing ^a   Yang, Manman ^a   Huang, Hui ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Kang, Zhenhui ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

boron; nanocarbon; nitrogen; oxygen reduction reaction; phosphorus; ternary doped

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARBON; CATALYSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOCARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; LARGE-SCALE FABRICATION; NANOPOROUS MORPHOLOGIES; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; SYNTHETIC APPROACH; TERNARY-DOPED;

OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

EID: 84919916858     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506284k     Document Type: Article

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