Carbon-Coated Core-Shell Fe-Cu Nanoparticles as Highly Active and Durable Electrocatalysts for a Zn-Air Battery

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6493-6501

  Nam, Gyutae ^a   Park, Joohyuk ^a   Choi, Min ^a   Oh, Pilgun ^a   Park, Suhyeon ^a   Kim, Min Gyu ^b   Park, Noejung ^a   Cho, Jaephil ^a   Lee, Jang Soo ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

binding affinity; durable electrocatalyst; oxygen reduction reaction; transition metal alloy; Zn air battery

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; BINDING ENERGY; BINS; CARBON; CATALYSTS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUEL CELLS; METALS; OXYGEN; PRECIOUS METALS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS; TRANSITION METALS; ZINC;

ALKALINE SOLUTIONS; BINDING AFFINITIES; BINDING STRENGTH; CU NANO-PARTICLES; GRAPHITIC CARBONS; METAL-AIR BATTERY; OXYGEN REDUCTION PROCESS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84935003651     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02266     Document Type: Article

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