Do carbon nanotubes catalyse bromine/bromide redox chemistry?
Archana Kaliyaraj Selva Kumar, Ruiyang Miao, Danlei Li, Richard G. Compton
Abstract
redox couple, widely used in batteries. The nanotubes are shown to be mildly catalytic compared to a glassy carbon surface but much less as inferred from conventional voltammetry on porous ensembles of MWCNTs where the mixed transport regime masks the true catalytic response.
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