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Simple preparation of nanoporous few-layer nitrogen-doped graphene for use as an efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions

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In this paper, a simple pyrolysis of graphene oxide and polyaniline was performed to obtain nitrogen-doped graphene (NG), which has excellent catalytic activity toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in an alkaline electrolyte.
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This article is published in Carbon.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 326 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electrocatalyst & Oxygen evolution.

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Recent Advances in Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials

TL;DR: The unique advances on ultrathin 2D nanomaterials are introduced, followed by the description of their composition and crystal structures, and the assortments of their synthetic methods are summarized.
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Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.

TL;DR: 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.
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Heteroatom-doped graphene materials: syntheses, properties and applications

TL;DR: The distinct properties resulting from various dopants, different doping levels and configurations, and synergistic effects from co-dopants are emphasized, hoping to assist a better understanding of doped graphene materials.
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Carbon-based metal-free catalysts

TL;DR: Carbon-based metal-free catalysts as discussed by the authors have been widely used as catalysts for materials production, clean energy generation and storage, and many other important industrial processes, but metal-based catalysts suffer from high cost, low selectivity, poor durability, susceptibility to gas poisoning and have a detrimental environmental impact.
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Nitrogen-doped graphene for high-performance ultracapacitors and the importance of nitrogen-doped sites at basal planes.

TL;DR: Using nitrogen-doped graphene produced by a simple plasma process, ultracapacitors are developed whose capacitances are about 4 times larger than those of pristine graphene based counterparts without sacrificing other essential and useful properties for ultracAPacitor operations including excellent cycle life, high power capability, and compatibility with flexible substrates.
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The characterization of activated carbons with oxygen and nitrogen surface groups

TL;DR: The physicochemical properties and the surface chemical structure of the carbon materials obtained by the modification of the commercial activated carbon D43/1 (Carbo-Tech, Essen, Germany) were studied in this article.
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Mechanisms of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for Fuel Cells

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used density functional theory (DFT) to demonstrate that the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on N-doped graphene is a direct fourelectron pathway, which is consistent with the experimental observations.
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High oxygen-reduction activity and durability of nitrogen-doped graphene

TL;DR: In this article, Nitrogen-doped graphene as a metal-free catalyst for oxygen reduction was synthesized by heat-treatment of graphene using ammonia and the optimum temperature was 900 °C.
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BCN Graphene as Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

TL;DR: This work has previously prepared vertically aligned nitrogendoped carbon nanotubes as ORR electrocatalysts, which are free from anode crossover and CO poisoning and show a threefold higher catalytic activity and better durability than the commercial Pt/C catalyst.
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