Nickel-borate oxygen-evolving catalyst that functions under benign conditions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10337-10341

  Dincǎ, Mircea ^a   Surendranath, Yogesh ^a   Nocera, Daniel G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial photosynthesis; Energy storage; Nonlegacy; Personalized energy; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CATALYST SUPPORT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; OXIDATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77953751030     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001859107     Document Type: Article

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