Catalytic and charge transfer properties of transition metal dichalcogenides arising from electrochemical pretreatment

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5164-5179

  Chia, Xinyi ^a   Ambrosi, Adriano ^a   Sofer, Zdenek ^b   Luxa, Jan ^b   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

activation; electrochemistry; hydrogen evolution; transition metal chalcogenides; two dimensional materials

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRON TRANSFER; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LAYERED TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TRANSITION METAL CHALCOGENIDES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84930225351     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00501     Document Type: Article

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