Tungsten nitride nanorods array grown on carbon cloth as an efficient hydrogen evolution cathode at all pH values

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 154, Issue , 2015, Pages 345-351

  Shi, Jinle ^a   Pu, Zonghua ^b   Liu, Qian ^b   Asiri, Abdullah M ^c   Hu, Jianming ^a   Sun, Xuping ^b  

^a CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

all pH values; hydrogen evolution cathode; nanorods array; tungsten nitride; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATHODES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN; NANORODS; NITRIDES; PH; PRECIOUS METALS;

HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; NANORODS ARRAYS; PH VALUE; TUNGSTEN NITRIDE; WATER SPLITTING;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84919797567     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.12.096     Document Type: Article

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