効率的な酸素還元反応のための五角炭素のリン/硫黄調節型pバンドセンター

Hongyin Xia1,2, Mingzi Sun3, Dongyue Yang2,4

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.

まとめ

研究者は酸素還元反応 (ORR) を促進するために,リンと硫黄を含む新しい炭素触媒を設計しました. この画期的な発明により ORRの効率が向上し 亜鉛空気電池は現在の標準を大幅に上回ります

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