Vertically aligned FeOOH/NiFe layered double hydroxides electrode for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 464-471

  Chi, Jun ^a,b   Yu, Hongmei ^a   Qin, Bowen ^a,b   Fu, Li ^a,b   Jia, Jia ^a,b   Yi, Baolian ^a   Shao, Zhigang ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer; Binder free; Layered double hydroxides; Oxygen evolution reaction; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

CALORIFIC VALUE; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NANOSHEETS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION;

ALKALINE ELECTROLYTES; BINDER FREE; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; LOWER HEATING VALUE; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION (OER); RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGES; WATER ELECTROLYZER; WATER SPLITTING;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 85016320963     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13360     Document Type: Article

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