Bioinspired Synthesis of Hierarchically Porous MoO2/Mo2C Nanocrystal Decorated N-Doped Carbon Foam for Lithium-Oxygen Batteries

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 5743-5752

  Lu, Yan ^a   Ang, Huixiang ^a   Yan, Qingyu ^a   Fong, Eileen ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN; POROSITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES; LITHIUM-OXYGEN BATTERIES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

FOAMS;

EID: 84983670693     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01966     Document Type: Article

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