Hollowed-out octahedral Co/N-codoped carbon as a highly efficient non-precious metal catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

Carbon

Volumn 82, Issue C, 2015, Pages 77-86

  Chao, Shujun ^a,b   Bai, Zhengyu ^a   Cui, Qian ^a   Yan, Huiying ^a   Wang, Kui ^a   Yang, Lin ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; COPPER; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; IONS; MANGANESE; METALS; NEGATIVE IONS; NICKEL; OXYGEN; POSITIVE IONS; PRECIOUS METALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSITION METALS; ZINC;

COMPLEX PRECURSORS; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; NON-PRECIOUS METAL CATALYSTS; OCTAHEDRAL COMPLEX; OCTAHEDRAL STRUCTURES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; TRANSITION METAL CATIONS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84923592598     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.10.034     Document Type: Article

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