Sulfur-Depleted Monolayered Molybdenum Disulfide Nanocrystals for Superelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 8929-8937

  Lin, Liangxu ^a,b   Miao, Naihua ^c,d   Wen, Yan ^a   Zhang, Shaowei ^a   Ghosez, Philippe ^c   Sun, Zhimei ^d   Allwood, Dan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrochemical; hydrogen evolution reaction; monolayered molybdenum disulfide; nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON EMISSION; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL; HIGH CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PRECIOUS METAL CATALYSTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHENE; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84989162414     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b04904     Document Type: Article

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