N-Doped crumpled graphene derived from vapor phase deposition of ppy on graphene aerogel as an efficient oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7066-7072

  Wang, Meng ^a   Wang, Jiazhao ^a   Hou, Yuyang ^a   Shi, Dongqi ^a   Wexler, David ^a   Poynton, Simon D ^b   Slade, Robert C T ^b   Zhang, Weimin ^c   Liu, Huakun ^a   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Sinopoly Battery Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline membrane fuel cell; Nitrogen doped graphene; Oxygen reduction reaction; Vapor phase polymerization

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; ALKALINE FUEL CELLS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYPYRROLES; VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY;

ALKALINE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS; ALKALINE MEMBRANES; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; GRAPHENE AEROGELS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; POROUS NANOSTRUCTURES; VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION; VAPOR PHASE POLYMERIZATION;

OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

EID: 84926634076     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01025     Document Type: Article

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