Iron Carbide Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Mesoporous Fe-N-Doped Graphene-Like Carbon Hybrids as Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 21511-21520

  Jiang, Hongliang ^a   Yao, Yifan ^a   Zhu, Yihua ^a   Liu, Yanyan ^a   Su, Yunhe ^a   Yang, Xiaoling ^a   Li, Chunzhong ^a  

^a East China University of Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

graphitic layers; iron carbide; oxygen electrocatalysts; oxygen evolution reaction; oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CATALYSTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; REGENERATIVE FUEL CELLS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; COST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES; GRAPHITIC LAYERS; IRON CARBIDES; METAL-AIR BATTERY; NON-PRECIOUS METAL CATALYSTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84942894348     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06708     Document Type: Article

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