Nickel-based thin film on multiwalled carbon nanotubes as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15395-15402

  Yu, Xingxing ^a   Hua, Tianyi ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Yan, Zhiping ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Du, Pingwu ^a  

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

Author keywords

bifunctional; electrocatalyst; hydrogen production; nickel; oxygen evolution; water splitting

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; NICKEL; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BI-FUNCTIONAL; BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRO-DEPOSITED NICKEL; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY ANALYSIS (EDX); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); OXYGEN EVOLUTION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION (OER); WATER SPLITTING;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84907855648     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503938c     Document Type: Article

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