Nanostructured Thin-Film WO3 Photoanodes for Solar Water and Sea-Water Splitting

On Solar Hydrogen & Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 333-347

  Alexander, Bruce D ^a   Augustynski, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Nanoparticles; Photocatalysis; Solar; Thin films; Tungsten trioxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954432158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470823996.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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