Tungsten carbide hollow microspheres as electrocatalyst and platinum support for hydrogen evolution reaction

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3229-3237

  Tang, Chaoyun ^a   Wang, Dezhi ^a   Wu, Zhuangzhi ^a   Duan, Bohua ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hollow microspheres; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Platinum support; Tungsten carbide

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN; MICROSPHERES; MORPHOLOGY; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

ELECTROCATALYST SUPPORT; ELECTROCATALYTIC ABILITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; HOLLOW MICROSPHERE; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SYNTHESIS TEMPERATURES;

HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION;

EID: 84922876983     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.12.105     Document Type: Article

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