Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Edges of a Few Layer Molybdenum Disulfide Nanodots

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 14113-14122

  Benson, John ^a   Li, Meixian ^b   Wang, Shuangbao ^c   Wang, Peng ^c   Papakonstantinou, Pagona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

edges; electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution reaction; ionic liquid exfoliation; MoS2 nanosheets; nanodots; water splitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934272025     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03399     Document Type: Article

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