Bottom-up Electrosynthesis of Highly Active Tungsten Sulfide (WS3-x) Films for Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3948-3957

  Tan, Shu Min ^a   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; electrodeposition; hydrogen evolution; transition metal dichalcogenides; tungsten sulfide

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST IMMOBILIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRON TRANSFER; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TUNGSTEN SULFIDE;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84959019519     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11109     Document Type: Article

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