Facile Synthesis of Vanadium-Doped Ni3S2 Nanowire Arrays as Active Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 5959-5967

  Qu, Yuanju ^a   Yang, Mingyang ^a,b   Chai, Jianwei ^c   Tang, Zhe ^d   Shao, Mengmeng ^a   Kwok, Chi Tat ^a   Yang, Ming ^c   Wang, Zhenyu ^b   Chua, Daniel ^d   Wang, Shijie ^c   Lu, Zhouguang ^b   Pan, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

doping; electrocatalyst; first principles calculation; hydrogen evolution reaction; transition metal sulfide; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOWIRES; SLOPE STABILITY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; TRANSITION METAL SULFIDES; WATER SPLITTING;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85013421873     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13244     Document Type: Article

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