Iron-nickel nitride nanostructures in situ grown on surface-redox-etching nickel foam: Efficient and ultrasustainable electrocatalysts for overall water splitting

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 6934-6941

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Xiao, Chunhui ^a   Xie, Sanmu ^a   Liang, Jin ^a   Chen, Xu ^a   Tang, Yuhai ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ETCHING; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; IRON; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITRIDES;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC BEHAVIOR; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GALVANOSTATIC ELECTROLYSIS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NITRIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDIZING AGENTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION;

NICKEL;

EID: 84991384257     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02610     Document Type: Article

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