Dimensional control of titanium dioxide nanotube arrays with hydrogen peroxide content for high photoelectrochemical water splitting performance

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 443-447

  Lai, C W ^a   Sreekantan, S ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKING PROBLEM; DIMENSIONAL CONTROL; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; LARGE PORES; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NANOTUBE FORMATION; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PORE DIAMETERS; TIO; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBE ARRAY; WATER SPLITTING;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOTUBES;

ELECTROLYTE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NANOTUBE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POROSITY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84866885268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2012.0237     Document Type: Article

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