Unveiling the Mechanisms Leading to H2 Production Promoted by Water Decomposition on Epitaxial Graphene at Room Temperature

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4543-4549

  Politano, Antonio ^a   Cattelan, Mattia ^b   Boukhvalov, Danil W ^c,d   Campi, Davide ^e   Cupolillo, Anna ^a   Agnoli, Stefano ^b   Apostol, Nicoleta G ^f   Lacovig, Paolo ^f   Lizzit, Silvano ^f   Farías, Daniel ^g   Chiarello, Gennaro ^a   Granozzi, Gaetano ^b   Larciprete, Rosanna ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

^h CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

graphene; hydrogen production; hydrogen storage; water

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INTERFACE STATES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SHEET METAL; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SUBSTRATES; TRANSITION METALS; WATER;

EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN STORAGE MEDIUM; MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; STATE OF THE ART; STORAGE DENSITIES; SURFACE SCIENCE; WATER DECOMPOSITION;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 84966989648     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00554     Document Type: Article

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