Reduced graphene oxide: a promising electrode material for oxygen electrodes

Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Danilov, Michail O ^a   Slobodyanyuk, Ivan A ^a   Rusetskii, Igor A ^a   Kolbasov, Gennadii Ya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Electrocatalysis; Electrochemical power sources; Oxygen electrode; Reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 85135249605     PISSN: 20089244     EISSN: 21938865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8865-3-49     Document Type: Article

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