Pt-free carbon-based fuel cell catalyst prepared from spherical polyimide for enhanced oxygen diffusion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nabae, Yuta ^a   Nagata, Shinsuke ^a   Hayakawa, Teruaki ^a   Niwa, Hideharu ^b   Harada, Yoshihisa ^b   Oshima, Masaharu ^b   Isoda, Ayano ^c   Matsunaga, Atsushi ^c   Tanaka, Kazuhisa ^c   Aoki, Tsutomu ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 84962609615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23276     Document Type: Article

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