Controllable Codoping of Nitrogen and Sulfur in Graphene for Highly Efficient Li-Oxygen Batteries and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1737-1745

  Huang, Huajie ^a   Zhu, Jixin ^c   Zhang, Wenyu ^b   Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar ^d   Zhang, Jianfeng ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Jiang, Quanguo ^a   He, Haiyan ^a   Wu, Yuping ^a   Huang, Wei ^c   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^d   Yan, Qingyu ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FUEL CELLS; FUEL STORAGE; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NITROGEN; PLATINUM; SULFUR;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CONTROLLABLE SYNTHESIS; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFCS); ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LITHIUM-OXYGEN BATTERIES; METHANOL OXIDATION REACTIONS;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC);

EID: 84962170684     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04654     Document Type: Article

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