A superlattice of alternately stacked Ni-Fe hydroxide nanosheets and graphene for efficient splitting of water

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1977-1984

  Ma, Wei ^a,b   Ma, Renzhi ^a   Wang, Chengxiang ^a   Liang, Jianbo ^a   Liu, Xiaohe ^b   Zhou, Kechao ^b   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; heteroassembly; layered double hydroxide; nonprecious metal catalyst; water splitting

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FUEL CELLS; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; NANOSHEETS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; TRANSITION METALS;

HETEROASSEMBLY; HOMOGENEOUS PRECIPITATION; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; NON-PRECIOUS METAL CATALYSTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION (OER); REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; WATER SPLITTING;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84923455931     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5069836     Document Type: Article

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