Nanoparticle-Stacked Porous Nickel-Iron Nitride Nanosheet: A Highly Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 18652-18657

  Wang, Yanyong ^a   Xie, Chao ^a   Liu, Dongdong ^a   Huang, Xiaobing ^b   Huo, Jia ^a   Wang, Shuangyin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

bifunctional electrocatalysts; hydrogen evolution reaction; nanoparticle stacked porous Ni3FeN; oxygen evolution reaction; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHEETS; NICKEL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); WETLANDS;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; POROUS NI; WATER SPLITTING;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84979737399     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05811     Document Type: Article

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