Metal Doping Effect of the M-Co2P/Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes (M = Fe, Ni, Cu) Hydrogen Evolution Hybrid Catalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 13890-13901

  Pan, Yuan ^a   Liu, Yunqi ^a   Lin, Yan ^a   Liu, Chenguang ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

cobalt phosphide; electrocatalytic activity; hybrid catalysts; hydrogen evolution; metal doping effect

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; COBALT; DECOMPOSITION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALS; NANOTUBES; NICKEL; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

COBALT PHOSPHIDE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; HYBRID CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; METAL-DOPING;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84974849155     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02023     Document Type: Article

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