Ren, Zhifeng2021-08-042021-08-04December 22020-12December 2https://hdl.handle.net/10657/7996Tungsten borides for water splitting performances can be optimized through the ball-milling and hot-pressing technique. Previous techniques for the synthesis of tungsten borides were a combination of electrochemical techniques, where the overpotentials were high which makes them very inefficient electrocatalysts and having very low current densities. The ball-milling and hot-pressing method decreases the overpotentials and increases the current densities. For tungsten borides to work as electrocatalysts, the chemical structure has the optimized so that it decreases the charge transfer resistance.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Water SplittingHydrogen Evolution ReactionOxygen Evolution Reaction2021-08-04Thesisborn digital