Facile fabrication of an efficient BiVO4 thin film electrode for water splitting under visible light irradiation

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

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11564-11569

  Jia, Qingxin ^a   Iwashina, Katsuya ^a   Kudo, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrogen production; Solar energy conversion; Visible light response

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM VANADATE; BISMUTH; BISMUTH VANADATE; FLUORINE; NITRIC ACID; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATE; TIN OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; NANOFABRICATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THICKNESS; VOLATILIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BISMUTH; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOLAR ENERGY; VANADATES; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84863974121     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204623109     Document Type: Article

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