Effect of Doping on Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of Vanadium Disulfide Monolayer

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Qu, Yuanju ^a,b   Pan, Hui ^a   Kwok, Chi Tat ^a   Wang, Zisheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Doping; First principles calculation; Hydrogen evolution reduction; Hydrogen production; VS2 monolayers

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FREE ENERGY; GAS ADSORPTION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; MONOLAYERS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HYDROGEN ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; TRANSITIONAL METAL ATOMS; TRANSITIONAL METALS; VANADIUM DISULFIDES; WATER ELECTROLYSIS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84949562702     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1182-y     Document Type: Article

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