Non-noble metal graphene oxide-copper (II) ions hybrid electrodes for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 565-573

  Muralikrishna, S ^a   Ravishankar, T N ^a   Ramakrishnappa, T ^a   Nagaraju, D H ^b   Krishna Pai, Ranjith ^a  

^a JAIN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

electrocatalyst; electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction; graphene oxide Cu (II) hybrids; overpotential; Tafel slope

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBOXYLATION; COPPER; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; IONS; PRECIOUS METALS; BINS;

CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; OVERPOTENTIAL; RATE DETERMINING STEP; SODIUM-ACETATE BUFFER; TAFEL SLOPES;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84940068504     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.12238     Document Type: Article

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