Aligned carbon nanotubes with built-in FeN4 active sites for electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen

Junbing Yang; Di-Jia Liu; Nancy N. Kariuki; Lin X. Chen

doi:10.1039/B713096A

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Aligned carbon nanotubes with built-in FeN₄ active sites for electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen†

Junbing Yang,^a Di-Jia Liu,*^a Nancy N. Kariuki^a and Lin X. Chen^a

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Abstract

The electrocatalytic site FeN₄, which is active towards the oxygen reduction reaction, is incorporated into the graphene layer of aligned carbon nanotubes prepared through a chemical vapour deposition process, as is confirmed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy and other characterization techniques.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B713096A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 28 Aug 2007
Accepted: 13 Nov 2007
First published: 29 Nov 2007

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Chem. Commun., 2008, 329-331

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Aligned carbon nanotubes with built-in FeN₄ active sites for electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen

J. Yang, D. Liu, N. N. Kariuki and L. X. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2008, 329 DOI: 10.1039/B713096A

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