Hydrogen generation under sunlight by self ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3250-3257

  Liu, Zhaoyue ^a   Pesic, Batric ^b   Raja, Krishnan S ^a   Rangaraju, Raghu R ^a   Misra, Mano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen generation; Nanotube; Sunlight; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE BATTERIES; APPLIED BIAS; HOLE SCAVENGERS; HYDROGEN GENERATION; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SUNLIGHT;

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; OXIDES; PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR RADIATION; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 64349099347     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.02.044     Document Type: Article

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