From water oxidation to reduction: Transformation from NixCo3-xO4 nanowires to NiCo/NiCoOx heterostructures

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3208-3214

  Yan, Xiaodong ^a   Li, Kexue ^c   Lyu, Lu ^b   Song, Fang ^d   He, Jun ^b   Niu, Dongmei ^b   Liu, Lei ^c   Hu, Xile ^d   Chen, Xiaobo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hydrogen evolution reaction; metal metal oxide heterostructures; nanowires; nickel cobalt oxide; oxygen evolution reaction

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; HYDROGENATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; NANOWIRES;

ACTIVE HYDROGENS; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; HYDROGENATION TREATMENT; NICKEL COBALT OXIDES; OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; WATER OXIDATION;

NICKEL;

EID: 84958213748     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10724     Document Type: Article

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