General Strategy for the Synthesis of Transition Metal Phosphide Films for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 12798-12803

  Read, Carlos G ^a   Callejas, Juan F ^a   Holder, Cameron F ^a   Schaak, Raymond E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution reaction; metal phosphides; oxygen evolution reaction; synthesis; thin films

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; METALS; NICKEL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS;

ACTIVE ELECTRODES; ELECTROCATALYTIC; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; METAL PHOSPHIDES; OVER POTENTIAL; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; TRANSITION METAL PHOSPHIDE;

TRANSITION METALS;

EID: 84973572846     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02352     Document Type: Article

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