A highly active and stable hydrogen evolution catalyst based on pyrite-structured cobalt phosphosulfide

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Wen ^a   Hu, Enyuan ^b   Jiang, Hong ^c   Xiang, Yingjie ^a   Weng, Zhe ^a   Li, Min ^d   Fan, Qi ^a   Yu, Xiqian ^b   Altman, Eric I ^d   Wang, Hailiang ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; COBALT; NANOPARTICLE; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHOSULFIDE; PYRITE; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COBALT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PYRITE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYBRID; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84959019380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10771     Document Type: Article

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