Nitrogen-doped graphene with pyridinic dominance as a highly active and stable electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 14763-14769

  Wu, Jingjie ^a   Ma, Lulu ^a   Yadav, Ram Manohar ^a   Yang, Yingchao ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Lou, Jun ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

low defect; metal free; nitrogen functionality; nitrogen doped graphene; oxygen reduction reaction; pyridinic nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

METAL FREE; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN FUNCTIONALITIES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PYRIDINIC NITROGEN;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84937134308     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02902     Document Type: Article

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