Solvent-Assisted Oxygen Incorporation of Vertically Aligned MoS2 Ultrathin Nanosheets Decorated on Reduced Graphene Oxide for Improved Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 38, 2016, Pages 25210-25218

  Liu, Aiping ^a,b   Zhao, Li ^a   Zhang, Junma ^a   Lin, Liangxu ^c   Wu, Huaping ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

electrochemistry; graphene oxide; hydrogen evolution; MoS2 nanosheets; oxygen incorporation; vertically aligned

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NANOSHEETS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; OXYGEN; SLOPE STABILITY; SOLVENTS;

DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITANCE; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; INCORPORATION MECHANISM; OXYGEN INCORPORATION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84989243792     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06031     Document Type: Article

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