Efficient Electrochemical Water Splitting Catalyzed by Electrodeposited Nickel Diselenide Nanoparticles Based Film

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4718-4723

  Pu, Zonghua ^a   Luo, Yonglan ^a   Asiri, Abdullah M ^b   Sun, Xuping ^a  

^a CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

electrodeposition; hydrogen; nanoparticles film; nickel diselenide; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CORROSION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; PRECIOUS METALS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

DISELENIDE; ELECTRO-DEPOSITED NICKEL; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NON-NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; TWO ELECTRODES; WATER SPLITTING;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84961815162     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12143     Document Type: Article

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