Surface tuning for promoted charge transfer in hematite nanorod arrays as water-splitting photoanodes

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 327-336

  Shen, Shaohua ^a,b   Kronawitter, Coleman X ^b   Jiang, Jiangang ^a   Mao, Samuel S ^b   Guo, Liejin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

hematite; nanorods; photoanodes; Surface tuning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860914476     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0213-6     Document Type: Article

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