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Chemical Communications

Are metal-free pristine carbon nanotubes electrocatalytically active?†

Yi Cheng,a   Jin Zhanga  and  San Ping Jiang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Fuels and Energy Technology Institute & Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia
E-mail: s.jiang@curtin.edu.au

Abstract

Metal-free (i.e., residual metallic impurities-blocked) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) do show electrocatalytic activity for H2 evolution, O2 evolution and O2 reduction reactions (HER, OER & ORR) in alkaline solutions, but their activities strongly depend on the number of walls or inner tubes with a maximum for CNTs with 2–3 walls.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC02218E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Mar 2015
Accepted
21 Jul 2015
First published
21 Jul 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 13764-13767

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Are metal-free pristine carbon nanotubes electrocatalytically active?

Y. Cheng, J. Zhang and S. P. Jiang, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 13764 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC02218E

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