Understanding the nature of active sites in carbon electrocatalysis remains a subject of dispute and a great scientific challenge. Convincing new evidence supports the fact that, for oxygen reduction, defects present in carbon materials are more powerful catalytic sites than nitrogenated sites.
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Titirici, M. Defects win over pyridinic sites. Nat Catal 2, 642–643 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0309-4
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