Water splitting with silver chloride photoanodes and amorphous silicon solar cells

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1017-1025

  Currao, Antonio ^a   Raja Reddy, Vanga ^a   van Veen, Marieke K ^a   Schropp, Ruud E I ^b   Calzaferri, Gion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; SILICON; SILVER CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ILLUMINATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 13444279206     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b411882k     Document Type: Article

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