Hierarchically porous carbons with optimized nitrogen doping as highly active electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liang, Hai Wei ^a   Zhuang, Xiaodong ^b   Brüller, Sebastian ^a   Feng, Xinliang ^a,b   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE; ZINC;

CARBON; CATALYST; COLLOID; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; FUEL CELL; NITROGEN; OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DESORPTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT TREATMENT; ISOTHERM; PH ELECTRODE; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; PYROLYSIS; REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84922699985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5973     Document Type: Article

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