Nitrogen Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Based Pt-TiO2 Nanocomposites for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 19117-19125

  Roy, Nitish ^a   Leung, Kam Tong ^b   Pradhan, Debabrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; PRECIOUS METALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

CHARGE TRANSPORTATION; CLEAN ENERGY GENERATION; ELECTROLYSIS OF WATERS; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2);

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84939803521     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b03870     Document Type: Article

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