Iron-doped nickel oxide nanocrystals as highly efficient electrocatalysts for alkaline water splitting

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5180-5188

  Fominykh, Ksenia ^a   Chernev, Petko ^b   Zaharieva, Ivelina ^b   Sicklinger, Johannes ^a   Stefanic, Goran ^c   Döblinger, Markus ^a   Müller, Alexander ^d   Pokharel, Aneil ^a   Böcklein, Sebastian ^a   Scheu, Christina ^d   Bein, Thomas ^a   Fattakhova Rohlfing, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; iron doped nickel oxide; nanoparticles; oxygen evolution; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; FILM PREPARATION; IRON OXIDES; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; NICKEL OXIDE; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; QUARTZ; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EXTENDED X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; IRON-DOPED; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SUBSTITUTIONAL INCORPORATION; WATER SPLITTING;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84930224906     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00520     Document Type: Article

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