Highly active oxide photocathode for photoelectrochemical water reduction

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 456-461

  Paracchino, Adriana ^a   Laporte, Vincent ^a   Sivula, Kevin ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a   Thimsen, Elijah ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROGEN; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

AL-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRODE; SURFACE PROTECTION; WATER ELECTROLYSIS;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 79957496297     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3017     Document Type: Article

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