Chemistry of Multitudinous Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Transition Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Electrocatalysts

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 25917-25928

  Artyushkova, Kateryna ^a   Serov, Alexey ^a   Rojas Carbonell, Santiago ^a   Atanassov, Plamen ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; METALS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PARTIAL REDUCTION; PYRIDINIC NITROGEN; PYRROLIC NITROGEN; REACTION MECHANISM; SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84947983018     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07653     Document Type: Article

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