Achieving highly efficient, selective, and stable CO2 reduction on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5364-5371

  Wu, Jingjie ^a   Yadav, Ram Manohar ^a   Liu, Mingjie ^a   Sharma, Pranav P ^b   Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar ^c   Ma, Lulu ^a   Zou, Xiaolong ^a   Zhou, Xiao Dong ^b   Yakobson, Boris I ^a   Lou, Jun ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; CO2 reduction; high durability; high selectivity; low overpotential; pyridinic nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BINDING ENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRODES; FREE ENERGY; NITROGEN; STABILITY;

CO2 REDUCTION; HIGH DURABILITY; HIGH SELECTIVITY; OVERPOTENTIAL; PYRIDINIC NITROGEN;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84930686182     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01079     Document Type: Article

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