Light-induced water oxidation at silicon electrodes functionalized with a cobalt oxygen-evolving catalyst

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 10056-10061

  Pijpers, Joep J H ^a,c   Winkler, Mark T ^b   Surendranath, Yogesh ^a   Buonassisi, Tonio ^b   Nocera, Daniel G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Photoelectrochemical; Solar energy; Storage

Indexed keywords

COBALT; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; OXYGEN; SILICON; WATER;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CATALYST; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ENERGY CONVERSION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PH; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICON ELECTRODE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79959926122     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106545108     Document Type: Article

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