Porous Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Converted from Layered Double Hydroxides and Their Applications in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 5702-5711

  Liang, Hanfeng ^a,b   Li, Linsen ^a   Meng, Fei ^a   Dang, Lianna ^a   Zhuo, Junqiao ^a,c   Forticaux, Audrey ^a   Wang, Zhoucheng ^b   Jin, Song ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHALCOGENIDES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL; POROUS MATERIALS; SLOPE STABILITY;

HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; POROUS METAL OXIDES; POROUS NANOSTRUCTURES; SELECTIVELY ETCHINGS; TOPOTACTIC CONVERSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL NANOSHEETS;

METALS;

EID: 84940055494     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02177     Document Type: Article

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