Recent progress on Fe/N/C electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1167-1192

  Liu, Jing ^a   Li, Erling ^a,b   Ruan, Mingbo ^a   Song, Ping ^a   Xu, Weilin ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

F N C electrocatalysts; Fe based active sites; Fuel cells; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937393263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5031167     Document Type: Review

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