Nanosheets Co3O4 Interleaved with Graphene for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 21373-21380

  Odedairo, Taiwo ^a   Yan, Xuecheng ^b   Ma, Jun ^c   Jiao, Yalong ^d   Yao, Xiangdong ^b   Du, Aijun ^d   Zhu, Zhonghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fuel cell; Nanosheets Co3O4; nonprecious metal; oxygen reduction reaction; sheet on sheet heterostructure

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METAL-AIR BATTERIES; NANOSHEETS; OXYGEN; SHEET METAL;

ALKALINE SOLUTIONS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENHANCED STABILITY; NON-PRECIOUS METALS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84942892658     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06063     Document Type: Article

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