Highly efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution based on nickel diselenide nanowall film

Nanotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2016, Pages

  Tang, Chun ^a   Xie, Lisi ^a   Sun, Xuping ^a   Asiri, Abdullah M ^b   He, Yuquan ^c  

^a CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CHINA JAPAN UNION HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution; nanowall; nickel diselenide

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DURABILITY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; FILM GROWTH; NICKEL; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANION EXCHANGE; DISELENIDE; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; LONG TERM DURABILITY; NANOWALLS; OVER POTENTIAL; TOPOTACTIC TRANSFORMATION;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84963974308     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/20/20LT02     Document Type: Article

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