Stainless Steel Mesh-Supported NiS Nanosheet Array as Highly Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5509-5516

  Chen, Jun Song ^a,b   Ren, Jiawen ^a,c   Shalom, Menny ^a   Fellinger, Tim ^a   Antonietti, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrochemical catalyst; nanosheets; NiS; oxygen evolution; stainless steel mesh

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; MESH GENERATION; NANOSHEETS; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CATALYST; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; STAINLESS STEEL MESH;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84959478983     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10099     Document Type: Article

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