Metal Nickel Foam as an Efficient and Stable Electrode for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Electrolyte under Reasonable Overpotentials

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5065-5069

  Lu, Jia ^a   Xiong, Tanli ^a   Zhou, Weijia ^a   Yang, Linjing ^a   Tang, Zhenghua ^a   Chen, Shaowei ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acidic electrolyte; equilibrium potential; hydrogen evolution reaction; nickel foam; stable electrocatalyst

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NICKEL;

ACIDIC ELECTROLYTES; EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIALS; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NICKEL FOAM; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; WATER ELECTROLYSIS;

ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84959500564     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00233     Document Type: Article

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