Yolk-shell structured iron carbide/N-doped carbon composite as highly efficient and stable oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst

Carbon

Volumn 82, Issue C, 2015, Pages 572-578

  Gu, Lingzheng ^a,b   Jiang, Luhua ^a   Jin, Jutao ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Gongquan ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; IRON; OXYGEN; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ALKALINE SOLUTIONS; CARBON COMPOSITES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRON CARBIDES; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SACRIFICIAL TEMPLATES; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES;

EID: 84923642435     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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