WC nanocrystals grown on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: An efficient and stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5125-5134

  Fan, Xiujun ^a,b,c   Zhou, Haiqing ^b,c   Guo, Xia ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HF CVD); hydrogen evolution reaction (HER); nanocrystalline; tungsten carbide; vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VA CNTs)

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE; YARN;

ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; HOT-FILAMENT CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84930196998     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00425     Document Type: Article

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