Evolution of an oxygen near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure transition in the upper hubbard band in α-Fe2O3 upon electrochemical oxidation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5619-5625

  Bora, Debajeet K ^a,b   Braun, Artur ^a   Erat, Selmas ^a,c   Ariffin, Ahmad K ^d,e   Löhnert, Romy ^a,f   Sivula, Kevin ^g   Töpfer, Jörg ^f   Grätzel, Michael ^g   Manzke, Recardo ^d   Graule, Thomas ^a,h   Constable, Edwin C ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

^h TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; EXCHANGE CURRENTS; HUBBARD BAND; NANO PARTICULATES; NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; NEAR-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTRUM; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POTENTIAL RANGE; STRUCTURAL ORIGIN; SURFACE STATE; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; VISUAL INSPECTION; X RAY REFLECTIVITY; X-RAY ENERGIES;

ABSORPTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HEMATITE; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SILVER; SILVER HALIDES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION;

EID: 79953698483     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp108230r     Document Type: Article

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