Growth and Tunable Surface Wettability of Vertical MoS2 Layers for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 34, 2016, Pages 22190-22195

  Bhimanapati, Ganesh R ^a   Hankins, Trevor ^a   Lei, Yu ^a   Vilá, Rafael A ^a   Fuller, Ian ^b   Terrones, Mauricio ^a   Robinson, Joshua A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Angstron Materials Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

contact angle; HERs; MoS2; nano flowers; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOFLOWERS; OZONE; TRANSITION METALS; WETTING;

FLOWER-LIKE STRUCTURES; FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES; HERS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; MULTIPLE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE WETTABILITY; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84985894827     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05848     Document Type: Article

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