Sulfur-doped graphene as a catalyst support: Influences of carbon black and ruthenium nanoparticles on the hydrogen evolution reaction performance

Carbon

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 762-773

  Shervedani, Reza Karimi ^a   Amini, Akbar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CATALYSTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GLASS MEMBRANE ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; RUTHENIUM; SCALABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; RUTHENIUM NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84938614003     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.05.088     Document Type: Article

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