Confining iron carbide nanocrystals inside CNx@CNT toward an efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11508-11515

  Zhang, Yun ^a,b   Jiang, Wen Jie ^b   Guo, Lin ^a,b   Zhang, Xing ^b   Hu, Jin Song ^b   Wei, Zidong ^a   Wan, Li Jun ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; iron carbides; nitrogen doped carbon; non noble metal catalysts; oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CARBON NANOTUBES; COSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; MASS TRANSFER; NANOCATALYSTS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN; PRECIOUS METALS;

ELECTROCATALYST FOR OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTIONS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; FAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; IRON CARBIDES; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; NON-NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PLATINUM BASED CATALYST;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84930644454     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02467     Document Type: Article

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