A Facile and General Approach for the Direct Fabrication of 3D, Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array/Transition Metal Oxide Composites as Non‐Pt Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reactions. (11th March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Zhi; Zhou, Xuemei; Jin, Zhiping; Liu, Zheng; Nie, Huagui; Chen, Xi'an; Huang, Shaoming
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 26:Number 19(2014)
• Page Start: 3156
• Page End: 3161
• Publication Date: 2014-03-11
• Subjects: Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201305513
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

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