Nanocrystals of Uranium Oxide: Controlled Synthesis and Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrogen Evolution by Ce Doping

Shi Hu; Haoyi Li; Huiling Liu; Peilei He; Xun Wang

doi:10.1002/smll.201403245

Nanocrystals of Uranium Oxide: Controlled Synthesis and Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrogen Evolution by Ce Doping

Small. 2015 Jun 10;11(22):2624-30. doi: 10.1002/smll.201403245. Epub 2015 Jan 27.

Authors

Shi Hu¹, Haoyi Li¹, Huiling Liu¹, Peilei He¹, Xun Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.

PMID: 25627103
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201403245

Abstract

A preliminary study of the growth of 0D, 1D, and 2D nanostructures of uranium oxides with feature sizes from several nanometers down to 1 nm are presented. Cerium is successfully doped into these oxides and its influence on the growth dynamics and electrochemical performance investigated.

Keywords: controlled synthesis; electrochemistry; hydrogen evolution; nanocrystals; ultrathin nanowires; uranium oxide.