Recent progress on MOF-Derived nanomaterials as advanced electrocatalysts in fuel cells

Catalysts

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Song, Zhongxin ^a   Cheng, Niancai ^a   Lushington, Andrew ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrocatalyst; Fuel cells; MOF derived nanomaterials; Oxygen reduction reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985945974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal6080116     Document Type: Review

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