Facile Synthesis of Unique Hexagonal Nanoplates of Zn/Co Hydroxy Sulfate for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 8134-8141

  Dutta, Soumen ^a   Ray, Chaiti ^a   Negishi, Yuichi ^b   Pal, Tarasankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

energy conversion and storage; mass activity; overpotential; oxygen evolution reaction; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; IONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXYGEN; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; MASS ACTIVITY; OVERPOTENTIAL; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; WATER OXIDATION;

ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85014840443     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00030     Document Type: Article

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