Carbon Nitrogen Nanotubes as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 11991-12000

  Yadav, Ram Manohar ^a,b   Wu, Jingjie ^a   Kochandra, Raji ^a   Ma, Lulu ^a   Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar ^a   Ge, Liehui ^a   Ye, Gonglan ^a   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Lou, Jun ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b VSSD College Kanpur   (India)

Author keywords

carbon nitrogen nanotubes; nanotube diameter; nitrogen moieties; oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; IONIZATION OF GASES; NANOTUBES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; YARN;

BI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS; BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; CARBON NITROGEN NANOTUBES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; NANOTUBE DIAMETERS; NITROGEN FUNCTIONALITIES; OXYGEN REDUCTION AND EVOLUTION REACTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84935843130     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02032     Document Type: Article

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