One Dimensional Graphitic Carbon Nitrides as Effective Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Catalysts

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tahir, Muhammad ^a   Mahmood, Nasir ^b   Zhu, Jinghan ^b   Mahmood, Asif ^b   Butt, Faheem K ^a   Rizwan, Syed ^b   Aslam, Imran ^a   Tanveer, M ^a   Idrees, Faryal ^a   Shakir, Imran ^c   Cao, Chuanbao ^a   Hou, Yanglong ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 84937869155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12389     Document Type: Article

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