Nickel-vanadium monolayer double hydroxide for efficient electrochemical water oxidation

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fan, Ke ^a,b   Chen, Hong ^a   Ji, Yongfei ^a   Huang, Hui ^a   Claesson, Per Martin ^a   Daniel, Quentin ^a   Philippe, Bertrand ^c   Rensmo, Håkan ^c   Li, Fusheng ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Sun, Licheng ^a,d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXIDE; IRON; NANOSHEET; NICKEL; VANADIUM; WATER;

ALKALINITY; CATALYST; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; FUEL; HYDROXIDE; NICKEL; OXIDATION; SOLAR POWER; SUSTAINABILITY; VANADIUM; WATER TREATMENT;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CURRENT DENSITY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84975321850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11981     Document Type: Article

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