Nanoporous Zn-doped Co3O4 sheets with single-unit-cell-wide lateral surfaces for efficient oxygen evolution and water splitting

Nano Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2018, Pages 371-377

  Liu, Xijun ^a   Xi, Wei ^a   Li, Chao ^a   Li, Xibo ^b   Shi, Jing ^a   Shen, Yongli ^a   He, Jia ^a   Zhang, Lihan ^a   Xie, Lin ^c   Sun, Xiaoming ^d   Wang, Peng ^c   Luo, Jun ^a   Liu, Li Min ^b   Ding, Yi ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Lateral surface; Overall water splitting; Oxygen evolution reaction; Single unit cell width

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; OXYGEN; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

LATERAL SURFACE; NANO-POROUS ZN; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; UNIT CELLS; WATER SPLITTING;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 85038212845     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.12.016     Document Type: Article

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