Facile synthesis of in-situ nitrogenated graphene decorated by few-layer MoS2 for hydrogen evolution reaction

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 171, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-80

  Dai, Xiaoping ^a   Li, Zhanzhao ^a   Du, Kangli ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Ma, Xingyu ^a   Wang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Few layer MoS2 nanosheets; graphene; hydrogen evolution reaction; hydrothermal co reduction; in situ Nitrogen doping

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSHEETS; SLOPE STABILITY;

ALTERNATIVE CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; HYDROTHERMAL CO REDUCTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; HYDROTHERMAL REDUCTION; NITROGEN-DOPING; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84929095472     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.05.017     Document Type: Article

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