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Catalysts: Toward Full Exposure of “Active Sites”: Nanocarbon Electrocatalyst with Surface Enriched Nitrogen for Superior Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactivity (Adv. Funct. Mater. 38/2014)
Author(s) -
Tian GuiLi,
Zhang Qiang,
Zhang Bingsen,
Jin YuGuang,
Huang JiaQi,
Su Dang Sheng,
Wei Fei
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201470250
Subject(s) - electrocatalyst , materials science , carbon nanotube , catalysis , carbon fibers , oxygen reduction reaction , reactivity (psychology) , coaxial , chemical engineering , nitrogen , oxygen , oxygen reduction , nanotechnology , surface modification , inorganic chemistry , electrode , composite number , composite material , organic chemistry , electrochemistry , chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering , electrical engineering
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are selected as the platform to demonstrate the potential of full exposure of “active sites” at the surface by Q. Zhang, D. S. Su, F. Wei, and co‐workers on page 5956. Novel nitrogen‐doped carbon coaxial nanocables with the pristine CNTs as the core and the N‐doped carbon layers as the shell are available. They possess very high electrical conductivity and much enhanced electrocatalytic activity for both oxygen reduction and evolution reaction.