Ultrafine Metal Phosphide Nanocrystals in Situ Decorated on Highly Porous Heteroatom-Doped Carbons for Active Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 28369-28376

  Zhu, Yun Pei ^a   Xu, Xueyan ^a   Su, Huan ^a   Liu, Yu Ping ^a   Chen, Tiehong ^a   Yuan, Zhong Yong ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

doped carbons; electrocatalysis; hybrid; metal phosphide; porous materials

Indexed keywords

CARBONIZATION; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIOUS METALS; REDUCTION;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CATHODIC CURRENT DENSITY; COMPOSITE CATALYSTS; DOPED CARBONS; EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; HYBRID; METAL PHOSPHIDES; NON-NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS;

METALS;

EID: 84953296860     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09092     Document Type: Article

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