Ultrathin Co(Ni)-doped MoS2 nanosheets as catalytic promoters enabling efficient solar hydrogen production

Nano Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2284-2293

  Ma, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Jinquan ^a   An, Changhua ^a   Feng, Juan ^a   Chi, Yuhua ^a   Liu, Junxue ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Sun, Yugang ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

MoS2; photocatalysis; two dimensional material; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COBALT COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOCATALYSTS; NANORODS; NANOSHEETS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MOS2; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; WATER SPLITTING;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84974806792     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-1115-9     Document Type: Article

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