Space-Confined Earth-Abundant Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for High-Efficiency Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 42, 2017, Pages 36762-36771

  Tang, Yanqun ^a   Fang, Xiaoyu ^b   Zhang, Xin ^a   Fernandes, Gina ^c   Yan, Yong ^c   Yan, Dongpeng ^b   Xiang, Xu ^a   He, Jing ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

bifunctional electrocatalyst; layered double hydroxide; monolithic catalyst; space confined growth; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTRODES; ENERGY CONVERSION; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; CONFINED GROWTH; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; MONOLITHIC CATALYSTS; WATER SPLITTING;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 85032907735     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b10338     Document Type: Article

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