Highly Efficient and Robust Nickel Phosphides as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water-Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 10826-10834

  Li, Jiayuan ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Zhou, Xuemei ^a   Xia, Zhaoming ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Ma, Yuanyuan ^a   Qu, Yongquan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bifunctional catalysts; electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution reaction; nickel phosphide; overall water splitting

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PRECIOUS METALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALKALINE ELECTROLYTES; BI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS; BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NICKEL PHOSPHIDE; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; WATER SPLITTING;

NICKEL;

EID: 84969673998     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00731     Document Type: Article

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