Enhancement in kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction on a nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst by introduction of iron via electrochemical methods

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5529-5536

  Wu, Jiajia ^a,b   Zhang, Da ^a,c   Niwa, Hideharu ^d   Harada, Yoshihisa ^d   Oshima, Masaharu ^d   Ofuchi, Hironori ^e   Nabae, Yuta ^a   Okajima, Takeyoshi ^a   Ohsaka, Takeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI SECOND POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRONS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; X RAY ABSORPTION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL DISSOLUTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; FOUR-ELECTRON REDUCTION; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; ROTATING RING-DISK ELECTRODE; X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTRUM;

REDUCTION;

EID: 84929587115     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00310     Document Type: Article

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