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Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.
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This paper presents a probabilistic procedure for estimating the polymethine content of carbon dioxide using a straightforward two-step procedure, and shows good results in both the stationary and the liquid phase.Abstract:
Liming Dai,*,†,‡ Yuhua Xue,†,‡ Liangti Qu,* Hyun-Jung Choi, and Jong-Beom Baek* †Center of Advanced Science and Engineering for Carbon (Case4Carbon), Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China School of Energy and Chemical Engineering/Center for Dimension-Controllable Covalent Organic Frameworks, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 100 Banyeon, Ulsan, 689-798, South Korearead more
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Active sites of nitrogen-doped carbon materials for oxygen reduction reaction clarified using model catalysts
TL;DR: In this paper, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) active site was characterized by using newly designed graphite (highly oriented pyrolitic graphite) model catalysts with well-defined π conjugation and well-controlled doping of N species.
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Cocatalysts for Selective Photoreduction of CO2 into Solar Fuels.
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Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis
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TL;DR: The fundamental relationships between electronic structure, adsorption energy, and apparent activity for a wide variety of 2D electrocatalysts are described with the goal of providing a better understanding of these emerging nanomaterials at the atomic level.
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Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious-Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions
TL;DR: The recent development of this concept is reviewed here and a novel principle for the design of oxygen electrocatalysts is proposed and an overview of the defects in carbon-based, metal-free electrocatalysis for ORR and various defects in metal oxides/selenides for OER is provided.
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Mildred S. Dresselhaus,Ado Jorio,G. Dresselhaus,Martin Hunter,T. McClure,Jason H. Hafner,Charles M. Lieber,Riichiro Saito +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a unique chirality assignment was made for both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes of diameter d(t), using the parameters gamma(0) = 2.9 eV and omega(RBM) = 248/d(t).
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Oxygen reduction reaction activity and surface properties of nanostructured nitrogen-containing carbon
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Boron-doped carbon nanotubes prepared through a substitution reaction
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Carbon nanomaterials as metal-free catalysts in next generation fuel cells
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Vertically aligned BCN nanotubes with high capacitance.
TL;DR: It was found that nitrogen atoms are bonded to carbons in both graphitic and pyridinic forms and that the resultant VA-BCNs show the highest specific capacitance and high durability with respect to nonaligned BCN and undoped multiwalled carbon nanotubes.