Design and Epitaxial Growth of MoSe2-NiSe Vertical Heteronanostructures with Electronic Modulation for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1838-1846

  Zhou, Xiaoli ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Ju, Huanxin ^b   Pan, Bicai ^b   Zhu, Junfa ^b   Ding, Tao ^a   Wang, Chunde ^a   Yang, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; METALS; MODULATION; MOLYBDENUM; NANOCRYSTALLITES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRECIOUS METALS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN;

CATHODIC CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS; SYNERGETIC INTERACTIONS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

ELECTROLYSIS;

EID: 84962159558     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b05006     Document Type: Article

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