Pure and stable metallic phase molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for hydrogen evolution reaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Geng, Xiumei ^a   Sun, Weiwei ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Chen, Benjamin ^b   Al Hilo, Alaa ^a   Benamara, Mourad ^c   Zhu, Hongli ^d   Watanabe, Fumiya ^a   Cui, Jingbiao ^e   Chen, Tar Pin ^a  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d Northeastern University   (United States)

^e University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; MOLYBDENUM; NANOSHEET; WATER;

ADSORPTION; AGGREGATION; CHEMICAL PROCESS; HYDROGEN; MOLYBDENUM; NANOPARTICLE; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84958068989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10672     Document Type: Article

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