How to chemically tailor metal-porphyrin-like active sites on carbon nanotubes and graphene for minimal overpotential in the electrochemical oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 29482-29491

  Cheng, Mu Jeng ^a,b   Head Gordon, Martin ^a,b   Bell, Alexis T ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FREE ENERGY; GRAPHENE; LIGANDS; METALS; OXYGEN; PORPHYRINS; YARN;

COMPUTATIONAL THERMODYNAMICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXYGEN; GRAPHENE LAYERS; METAL OXIDE SURFACES; OPTIMAL CHOICE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84949117224     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507638v     Document Type: Article

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