Electrocatalytic performance and stability of nanostructured Fe-Ni pyrite-type diphosphide catalyst supported on carbon paper

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 30, 2016, Pages 16537-16544

  Costa, José Diogo ^a   Lado, José Luis ^a   Carbó Argibay, Enrique ^a   Paz, Elvira ^a   Gallo, Juan ^a   Cerqueira, M Fátima ^b   Rodríguez Abreu, Carlos ^a   Kovnir, Kirill ^c   Kolen'Ko, Yury V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; DIFFUSION IN GASES; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; PAPER; PYRITES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY MICROANALYSIS; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84980506589     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b05783     Document Type: Article

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