Realizing high water splitting activity on Co3O4 nanowire arrays under neutral environment

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-71

  He, Jingfu ^a   Peng, Yanhua ^a   Sun, Zhihu ^a   Cheng, Weiren ^a   Liu, Qinghua ^a   Feng, Yajuan ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a   Hu, Fengchun ^a   Pan, Zhiyun ^a   Bian, Qing ^b   Wei, Shiqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buffering agents; Cobaltosic oxide; Mass transfer; neutral electrolyte; Water oxidation catalyst

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CURRENT; COBALTOSIC OXIDES; ELECTROCATALYTIC; NEUTRAL ELECTROLYTES; NEUTRAL ENVIRONMENT; SAFETY AND STABILITIES; TRANSITION METAL CATALYSTS; WATER OXIDATION CATALYSTS;

ELECTROLYTES; MASS TRANSFER; NANOWIRES;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84891771861     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.11.138     Document Type: Article

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