Nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide prepared by simultaneous thermal reduction and nitrogen doping of graphene oxide in air and its application as an electrocatalyst

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 26952-26958

  Du, Donghe ^a   Li, Pengcheng ^a   Ouyang, Jianyong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

air; graphene; nitrogen doped; reduced graphene oxide; thermal reduction

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AIR; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; NITROGEN; SCALABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HIGH REACTION TEMPERATURES; LOWER REACTION TEMPERATURE; NITROGEN-DOPED; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; THERMAL REDUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; ULTRAVIOLET-VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84949650498     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07757     Document Type: Article

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