General Method for the Synthesis of Hollow Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Tunable Textural Properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12914-12922

  Mezzavilla, Stefano ^a   Baldizzone, Claudio ^b   Mayrhofer, Karl J J ^b   Schüth, Ferdi ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

hollow mesoporous carbon spheres; mesoporous materials; oxygen reduction reaction; pore size; tunable textural properties

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COPOLYMERS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; PLATINUM; PORE SIZE; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; SPHERES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; MESOPOROUS CARBON; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SURFACTANT ASSISTED; SYNTHETIC PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC PROCEDURES; TEXTURAL PROPERTIES;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84934969062     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02580     Document Type: Article

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