Noble Metal-Free Copper Hydroxide as an Active and Robust Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation at Weakly Basic pH

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2593-2600

  Cui, Shengsheng ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Sun, Zijun ^a   Du, Pingwu ^a  

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

Author keywords

Catalyst; Copper hydroxide; Electrocatalysis; Water oxidation

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COPPER; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PRECIOUS METALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ABUNDANT MATERIALS; APPLIED POTENTIALS; CATALYTIC CURRENT; COPPER HYDROXIDE; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; WATER OXIDATION; WATER OXIDATION CATALYSTS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84967215026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b00067     Document Type: Article

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