Some recent developments in photoelectrochemical water splitting using nanostructured TiO2: A short review

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Szymanski, Paul ^a   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Nanotubes; Photoelectrochemistry; Plasmonics; Solar energy; Titanium dioxide; Transient absorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861440947     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-012-1202-2     Document Type: Review

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