Facile Synthesis of Heterostructured Nickel/Nickel Oxide Wrapped Carbon Fiber: Flexible Bifunctional Gas-Evolving Electrode for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 529-536

  Zhang, Zheye ^a   Liu, Shasha ^a   Xiao, Fei ^a   Wang, Shuai ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifunctional electrodes; Carbon fiber; Electrocatalysis; Nickel nickel oxide; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY RESOURCES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TEMPERATURE; WEAVING;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTRODES; CALCINATION PROCEDURES; GAS-EVOLVING ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; WATER SPLITTING; WATER SPLITTING REACTIONS;

NICKEL;

EID: 85008489983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01879     Document Type: Article

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