Effect of N and S co-doping of multiwalled carbon nanotubes for the oxygen reduction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 157, Issue , 2015, Pages 158-165

  Domínguez, Carlota ^a   Pérez Alonso, Francisco J ^a   Al Thabaiti, Shaeel A ^b   Basahel, Sulaiman Nassir ^b   Obaid, Abdullah Y ^b   Alyoubi, Abdurrahman Obaid ^b   Gómez De La Fuente, José L ^a   Rojas, Sergio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

multiwalled carbon nanotubes; nitrogen; non precious metal catalyst; ORR; sulfur

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SULFUR; YARN;

ALKALINE ELECTROLYTES; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES; NON-PRECIOUS METAL CATALYSTS; ORR; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PROMOTIONAL EFFECT;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84921665380     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.01.031     Document Type: Article

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