An efficient molybdenum disulfide/cobalt diselenide hybrid catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen generation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gao, Min Rui ^a   Liang, Jin Xia ^b,c   Zheng, Ya Rong ^a   Xu, Yun Fei ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a   Gao, Qiang ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Yu, Shu Hong ^a  

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

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUIZHOU EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; DISULFIDE; HYDROGEN; MOLYBDENUM; SELENIDE;

CATALYST; ELECTROKINESIS; FUEL CELL; HYDROGEN; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MOLYBDENUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HYBRID; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; KINETICS; POLARIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84923110853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6982     Document Type: Article

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