Preparation of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes with different morphologies from melamine-formaldehyde resin

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7413-7420

  Yao, Yi ^a,b   Zhang, Bingqing ^a,c   Shi, Jingying ^a   Yang, Qihua ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nitrogen doping; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FORMALDEHYDE; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; RESINS;

HALF-WAVE POTENTIAL; IRON PRECURSORS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE; NITROGEN DOPED CARBON NANOTUBES; NITROGEN-DOPING; OUTER DIAMETERS; POLYMER PRECURSORS; PYROLYSIS PROCESS;

MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS;

EID: 84926619228     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01233     Document Type: Article

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