Covalent entrapment of cobalt-iron sulfides in N-doped mesoporous carbon: Extraordinary bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1207-1218

  Shen, Mengxia ^a,b   Ruan, Changping ^a,b   Chen, Yan ^a,b   Jiang, Chunhuan ^a   Ai, Kelong ^a   Lu, Lehui ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysts; Fuel cells; Late transition metal chalcogenides; Mesoporous carbon; Oxygen evolution reaction; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHALCOGENIDES; COBALT; DISPERSIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; IONIC LIQUIDS; IRON; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; OXYGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; REDUCTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; LATE TRANSITION METALS; MESOPOROUS CARBON; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION AND EVOLUTION REACTIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84921453180     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507033x     Document Type: Article

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