Metallic Cobalt Encapsulated in Bamboo-Like and Nitrogen-Rich Carbonitride Nanotubes for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6439-6448

  Dai, Xiaoping ^a   Li, Zhanzhao ^a   Ma, Yangde ^a   Liu, Mengzhao ^a   Du, Kangli ^a,b   Su, Haixia ^a   Zhuo, Hongying ^a   Yu, Lei ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b Sichuan Tianyi Science and Technology Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

carbonitride nanotubes; cobalt embedment; hydrogen evolution reaction; nitrogen rich doping; synergistic effects

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; CATALYSTS; CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; NITROGEN; SLOPE STABILITY; YARN;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; PT-BASED CATALYST; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84962273881     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11717     Document Type: Article

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