Cobalt Ferrite Bearing Nitrogen-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Layers Spatially Separated with Microporous Carbon as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 20730-20740

  Kashyap, Varchaswal ^a,b   Singh, Santosh K ^a,b   Kurungot, Sreekumar ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

cobalt ferrite; microporous carbon; nanoparticle; oxygen reduction reaction; solvothermal method; Zn air battery

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CATALYSTS; COBALT; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FERRITE; GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PRIMARY BATTERIES; REDUCTION; ZINC;

COBALT FERRITES; DISCHARGE CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXYGEN REDUCTION; GALVANOSTATIC DISCHARGE; MICRO-POROUS CARBONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD;

MICROPOROSITY;

EID: 84983479548     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05416     Document Type: Article

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