Microwave-Assisted Reactant-Protecting Strategy toward Efficient MoS2 Electrocatalysts in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 23741-23749

  Liu, Ning ^a   Guo, Yulin ^a   Yang, Xiaoyun ^a   Lin, Huanlei ^a   Yang, Lichun ^b   Shi, Zhangping ^c   Zhong, Zhiwei ^a   Wang, Sinong ^c   Tang, Yi ^c   Gao, Qingsheng ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

active sites; hydrogen evolution; microwave; molybdenum disulfide; reactant protecting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; MICROWAVES;

ACTIVE SITE; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; HIGH SURFACE ENERGY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; REACTANT-PROTECTING;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84945941523     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08103     Document Type: Article

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