Photoelectrocatalyst Discovery Using High-Throughput Methods and Combinatorial Chemistry

On Solar Hydrogen & Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 399-458

  Kleiman Shwarsctein, Alan ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Hu, Yongsheng ^a   Mcfarland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated screening; Automated synthesis; Combinatorial chemistry; High throughput experimentation; Parallel screening; Parallel synthesis; Photoelectrochemistry; Semiconductor; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953649354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470823996.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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