Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal oxygen electroreduction catalysts

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sahraie, Nastaran Ranjbar ^a   Kramm, Ulrike I ^b   Steinberg, Julian ^a   Zhang, Yuanjian ^c   Thomas, Arne ^a   Reier, Tobias ^a   Paraknowitsch, Jens Peter ^a   Strasser, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARBON; CATALYST; DECONVOLUTION; DENSITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROKINESIS; FUEL CELL; IRON; METAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84944931392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9618     Document Type: Article

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