Boron/nitrogen co-doped helically unzipped multiwalled carbon nanotubes as efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 7786-7794

  Zehtab Yazdi, Alireza ^a,b   Fei, Huilong ^b   Ye, Ruquan ^b   Wang, Gunuk ^b   Tour, James ^b,c   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bamboo structures; codoping; graphene nanoribbons; helical unzipping; oxygen reduction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BAMBOO; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; NANORIBBONS; NANOTUBES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BAMBOO STRUCTURES; CO-DOPING; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HELICAL UNZIPPING; OXYGEN REDUCTION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84927914552     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01067     Document Type: Article

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