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Partially unzipped multi-walled carbon nanotubes—promising material for oxygen electrodes of fuel cells

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Partially unzipped multi-walled carbon nanotubes were used as an active layer of the oxygen electrodes. The obtaining of partially unzipped carbon nanotubes was confirmed by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. An investigation of the electrocatalytic characteristics of such oxygen electrodes was carried out in a fuel half-cell with an alkaline electrolyte. Electrochemical studies have established that the obtained partially unzipped multi-walled carbon nanotubes are promising materials as a catalyst carrier for oxygen electrodes of fuel cells. The oxygen electrodes based on the electrochemically obtained carbon materials were stable for six months at a discharge current density of 200 mA cm−2.

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  1. V. I. Vernadskii Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 32/34 Academic Palladin Avenue, Kiev, 03142, Ukraine

    Michail O. Danilov, Ihor A. Rusetskyi, Vasil I. Pekhnyo & Gennadii Ya. Kolbasov

  2. Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 46 Nauky Avenue, Kiev, 03039, Ukraine

    Galina I. Dovbeshko

  3. Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 45, Nauky Avenue, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

    Andrii S. Nikolenko

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Danilov, M.O., Dovbeshko, G.I., Rusetskyi, I.A. et al. Partially unzipped multi-walled carbon nanotubes—promising material for oxygen electrodes of fuel cells. Appl. Phys. A 126, 764 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-03951-2

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