Critical role of intercalated water for electrocatalytically active nitrogen-doped graphitic systems

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Martinez, Ulises ^a   Dumont, Joseph H ^a,b   Holby, Edward F ^c   Artyushkova, Kateryna ^b   Purdy, Geraldine M ^a   Singh, Akhilesh ^a   Mack, Nathan H ^a   Atanassov, Plamen ^b   Cullen, David A ^d   More, Karren L ^d   Chhowalla, Manish ^e   Zelenay, Piotr ^a   Dattelbaum, Andrew M ^a   Mohite, Aditya D ^a   Gupta, Gautam ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; DURABILITY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHENE; IONIZATION OF GASES;

ACIDIC ELECTROLYTES; ALKALINE ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; FOUR-ELECTRON REDUCTION; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOSHEETS; HALF-WAVE POTENTIAL; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; STRUCTURAL REORGANIZATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

GRAPHITE; NITROGEN; OXIDE; OXYGEN; SOLVENT; WATER;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GRAPHITE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; OXYGEN; SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 85010257164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501178     Document Type: Article

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