Molybdenum phosphide: a new highly efficient catalyst for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction.

نویسندگان

  • Xiaobo Chen
  • Dezhi Wang
  • Zhiping Wang
  • Pan Zhou
  • Zhuangzhi Wu
  • Feng Jiang
چکیده

Molybdenum phosphide was adopted as a new electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction for the first time, exhibiting an excellent electrocatalytic activity with a small Tafel slope of 60 mV dec(-1), which is amongst the most active, acid-stable, earth abundant HER electrocatalysts reported to date.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chemical communications

دوره 50 79  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014