Fe/Fe2O3 nanoparticles anchored on Fe-N-doped carbon nanosheets as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries

Nano Research

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2123-2137

  Zang, Yipeng ^a,b   Zhang, Haimin ^a   Zhang, Xian ^a,b   Liu, Rongrong ^a,b   Liu, Shengwen ^a   Wang, Guozhong ^a   Zhang, Yunxia ^a   Zhao, Huijun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fe Fe2O3@Fe N doped carbon; N doped carbon nanodots; oxygen evolution reaction; oxygen reduction reaction; rechargeable zinc air battery

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATHODES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; NANODOTS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHEETS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXYGEN; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PYROLYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC; ZINC AIR BATTERIES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; N-DOPED; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; RECHARGEABLE ZINC-AIR BATTERIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84969816017     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-1102-1     Document Type: Article

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