title: Hydrophilic non-precious metal nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts for enhanced efficiency in oxygen reduction reaction.
abstract: Exploring the role of surface hydrophilicity of non-precious metal N-doped carbon electrocatalysts in electrocatalysis is challenging. Herein we discover an ultra-hydrophilic non-precious carbon electrocatalyst, showing enhanced catalysis efficiency on both gravimetric and areal basis for oxygen reduction reaction due to a high dispersion of active centres.
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany. Stefan.Kaskel@chemie.tu-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Guang-Ping
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.affiliation: The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 124, 10623 Berlin, Germany. pstrasser@tu-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Nastaran Ranjbar
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Sahraie
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany. Stefan.Kaskel@chemie.tu-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany. Stefan.Kaskel@chemie.tu-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oschatz
authors.affiliation: IFW Dresden, Institute of Complex Materials, P. O. Box 270116, D-01171, Dresden, Germany and Center of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34, Zabrze 41-819, Poland.
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bachmatiuk
authors.affiliation: The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 124, 10623 Berlin, Germany. pstrasser@tu-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Strasser
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany. Stefan.Kaskel@chemie.tu-dresden.de and Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, Winterbergstraße 28, 01277, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaskel