Researching | Next-Generation Green Hydrogen: Progress and Perspective from Electricity, Catalyst to Electrolyte in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 237(2024)

Next-Generation Green Hydrogen: Progress and Perspective from Electricity, Catalyst to Electrolyte in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Xueqing Gao... Yutong Chen, Yujun Wang, Luyao Zhao, Xingyuan Zhao, Juan Du, Haixia Wu and Aibing Chen* |Show fewer author(s)

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College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, People’s Republic of China

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Xueqing Gao, Yutong Chen, Yujun Wang, Luyao Zhao, Xingyuan Zhao, Juan Du, Haixia Wu, Aibing Chen. Next-Generation Green Hydrogen: Progress and Perspective from Electricity, Catalyst to Electrolyte in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 237

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