Facile synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped hierarchical micro/mesoporous carbon foams as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 174, Issue , 2015, Pages 826-836

  Jiang, Shu ^a,b   Sun, Yujing ^a   Dai, Haichao ^a,b   Hu, Jingting ^a,b   Ni, Pengjuan ^a,b   Wang, Yilin ^a,b   Li, Zhuang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

fuel cell; metal free catalyst; N and S dual doped micro mesoporous carbon; ORR

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE FUEL CELLS; CARBON; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CATALYSTS; DIRECT ETHANOL FUEL CELLS (DEFC); ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FOAMS; FUEL CELLS; METALS; POLYANILINE; PRECIOUS METALS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SULFUR;

DIFFUSION LIMITING CURRENT; DUAL DOPED; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; METAL-FREE CATALYSTS; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; ORR; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84933517998     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.06.050     Document Type: Article

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