Improved Oxygen Evolution Kinetics and Surface States Passivation of Ni-Bi Co-Catalyst for a Hematite Photoanode

Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 285-289

  Dang, Ke ^a,b   Wang, Tuo ^a,b   Li, Chengcheng ^a,b   Zhang, Jijie ^a,b   Liu, Shanshan ^a,b   Gong, Jinlong ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SynBio Research Platform   (China)

Author keywords

Co catalyst; Hematite; Nickel borate; Oxygen evolution reaction

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CATALYSTS; COBALT ALLOYS; HEMATITE; IRON COMPOUNDS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; PASSIVATION; SURFACE STATES;

CO CATALYSTS; HEMATITE PHOTOANODE; NICKEL BORATES; ONSET POTENTIAL; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SURFACE KINETICS;

BISMUTH ALLOYS;

EID: 85029310696     PISSN: 20958099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENG.2017.03.005     Document Type: Article

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