Ternary platinum-copper-nickel nanoparticles anchored to hierarchical carbon supports as free-standing hydrogen evolution electrodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3464-3472

  Shen, Yi ^a,b   Lua, Aik Chong ^b   Xi, Jingyu ^c   Qiu, Xinping ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanofiber arrays; chemical vapor deposition; free standing electrocatalysts; hydrogen evolution reaction; ternary platinum copper nickel nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOFIBERS; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; PLATINUM; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

AMBIENT PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; CARBON NANOFIBER ARRAYS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON CONDUCTIVITY; GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTIONS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84958280811     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11966     Document Type: Article

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