Self-optimizing, highly surface-active layered metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution

Nature Energy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Liu, Yuanyue ^a,d   Wu, Jingjie ^a   Hackenberg, Ken P ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Wang, Y Morris ^b   Yang, Yingchao ^a   Keyshar, Kunttal ^a   Gu, Jing ^c   Ogitsu, Tadashi ^b   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Lou, Jun ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a   Wood, Brandon C ^b   Yakobson, Boris I ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CALCULATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPLEXATION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN; MORPHOLOGY; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ACTIVE COUNTERPARTS; ALTERNATIVE CATALYSTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LAYERED TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSTEN; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHEMICAL REACTION; MOLYBDENUM; PERFORATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 85074241984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2017.127     Document Type: Article

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