Component Matters: Paving the Roadmap toward Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance of Graphitic C3N4-Based Catalysts via Atomic Tuning

ACS Nano

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 6004-6014

  Pei, Zengxia ^a   Gu, Jingxing ^b   Wang, Yukun ^a   Tang, Zijie ^a   Liu, Zhuoxin ^a   Huang, Yan ^a   Huang, Yang ^c   Zhao, Jingxiang ^b   Chen, Zhongfang ^b   Zhi, Chunyi ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; graphitic carbon nitride; heteroatom; hydrogen evolution; oxygen reduction

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FREE ENERGY; REACTION KINETICS;

ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCATALYTIC REACTIONS; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; HETEROATOMS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION;

REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

EID: 85021414927     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b01908     Document Type: Article

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