Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction on nitrogen-doped carbon nanoparticles derived from cyano-aromatic molecules via a solution plasma approach

Carbon

Volumn 98, Issue , 2016, Pages 411-420

  Panomsuwan, Gasidit ^a,d   Saito, Nagahiro ^b,c   Ishizaki, Takahiro ^a,c  

^a SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN PLASMA; REDUCTION;

ELECTROCATALYTIC OXYGEN REDUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL EVALUATIONS; FOUR-ELECTRON REDUCTION; HIERARCHICAL PORE STRUCTURES; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SINGLE-SOURCE PRECURSOR; SOLUTION PLASMA PROCESS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84955318598     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.013     Document Type: Article

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