Operando characterization of an amorphous molybdenum sulfide nanoparticle catalyst during the hydrogen evolution reaction

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 29252-29259

  Casalongue, Hernan G Sanchez ^a   Benck, Jesse D ^b   Tsai, Charlie ^b,d   Karlsson, Rasmus K B ^e   Kaya, Sarp ^a,c   Ng, May Ling ^d   Pettersson, Lars G M ^f   Abild Pedersen, Frank ^d   Norskov J K ^b,d   Ogasawara, Hirohito ^g   Jaramillo, Thomas F ^a,b   Nilsson, Anders ^a,d,g  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^g SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES;

ACTIVE SURFACE SITES; COMPOSITION CHANGES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES; ELECTROLYTIC CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NANOPARTICLE CATALYSTS; OPERATING CONDITION; SITU TRANSFORMATION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84949116763     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505394e     Document Type: Article

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