Practical, cost-effective and large-scale production of nitrogen-doped porous carbon particles and their use as metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-35

  Yuan, Wenjing ^a   Li, Juchuan ^b   Xie, Anjian ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Li, Shikuo ^a   Shen, Yuhua ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black bread reaction; electrocatalyst; nitrogen doped porous carbon particles; oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST REDUCTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FOOD PRODUCTS; FUEL CELLS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POROUS MATERIALS;

BLACK BREAD REACTION; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; POROUS CARBON PARTICLES; PYRIDINIC NITROGEN; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84926450792     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.02.242     Document Type: Article

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