Enhanced photoassisted water electrolysis using vertically oriented anodically fabricated Ti-Nb-Zr-O mixed oxide nanotube arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5819-5826

  Allam, Nageh K ^a,c   Alamgir, Faisal ^b   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^a  

^a Parker H Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

anodization; efficiency; nanotubes; photocurrent; Ti Nb Zr O; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ANODIZATIONS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ROUTES; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; FORMAMIDES; MIXED OXIDE; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NANOTUBE FILMS; NANOTUBE SURFACE; NB OXIDES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THICK LAYERS; THIN WALLS; TI-NB-ZR-O; TIO; UV ILLUMINATIONS; WATER ELECTROLYSIS; WATER SPLITTING;

AMIDES; ELECTROLYTES; FABRICATION; HYDROGEN; NANOTUBES; NIOBIUM; OXIDE FILMS; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; ZIRCONIUM;

NIOBIUM OXIDE;

NANOTUBE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; OXYGEN; TITANIUM; WATER; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 78049344308     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101678n     Document Type: Article

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