In situ oxidation of carbon-encapsulated cobalt nanocapsules creates highly active cobalt oxide catalysts for hydrocarbon combustion

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Han ^a   Chen, Chunlin ^b   Zhang, Yexin ^b   Peng, Lixia ^c   Ma, Song ^a   Yang, Teng ^a   Guo, Huaihong ^a   Zhang, Zhidong ^a   Su, Dang Sheng ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^c SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON SURFACE PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY LABORATORY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COBALT; HYDROCARBON; NANOCAPSULE;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COBALT; COMBUSTION; CRYSTAL; ENCAPSULATION; HYDROCARBON; METHANE; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDATION; PALLADIUM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SMOG;

ARTICLE; CARBON BALANCE; CATALYST; COMBUSTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MELTING POINT; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOFABRICATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; REACTION ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84931291833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8181     Document Type: Article

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