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Frontispiece: Facilely Tuning Porous NiCo 2 O 4 Nanosheets with Metal Valence‐State Alteration and Abundant Oxygen Vacancies as Robust Electrocatalysts Towards Water Splitting
Author(s) -
Zhu Chengzhou,
Fu Shaofang,
Du Dan,
Lin Yuehe
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201504559
Subject(s) - electrocatalyst , valence (chemistry) , materials science , oxygen evolution , metal , water splitting , electrolyte , oxygen , porosity , oxygen reduction , chemical engineering , nanostructure , nanotechnology , catalysis , chemistry , electrode , electrochemistry , metallurgy , composite material , biochemistry , organic chemistry , photocatalysis , engineering
Electrocatalysis Freestanding porous NiCo 2 O 4 nanosheets with metal valence‐state alteration and abundant oxygen vacancies were facilely synthesized by electrodeposition and subsequent NaBH 4 reduction treatment. As reported by Y. Lin et al. in the Full Paper on page 4000 ff., by taking advantage of the porous nanostructures and abundant surface activity sites with high reactivity, the resultant nanostructures exhibit excellent oxygen evolution activity and stability in alkaline electrolytes that outperform those of pristine NiCo 2 O 4 and commercial RuO 2 , holding great potential for water splitting.