Coralloid Co2P2O7 Nanocrystals Encapsulated by Thin Carbon Shells for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 34, 2016, Pages 22534-22544

  Chang, Yingxue ^a   Shi, Nai En ^b,c   Zhao, Shulin ^a   Xu, Dongdong ^a   Liu, Chunyan ^a   Tang, Yu Jia ^a   Dai, Zhihui ^a   Lan, Ya Qian ^a   Han, Min ^a,c   Bao, Jianchun ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon; cobalt phosphates; coordination environment and geometry; core shell nanostructures; electrocatalysis; oxygen evolution reaction

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES; BIOMIMETICS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSTS; COBALT; COORDINATION REACTIONS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; GELS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOSPHATES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

BIOMIMETIC SYNTHESIS; COORDINATION ENVIRONMENT; CORE SHELL NANO STRUCTURES; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INORGANIC NANOCRYSTALS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMERS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84984920749     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b07209     Document Type: Article

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