Efficient solar water splitting by enhanced charge separation in a bismuth vanadate-silicon tandem photoelectrode

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Abdi, Fatwa F ^a   Han, Lihao ^b   Smets, Arno H M ^b   Zeman, Miro ^b   Dam, Bernard ^a   Van De Krol, Roel ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; COBALT; PHOSPHATE; SILICON; VANADIC ACID;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BISMUTH; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRODE; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEPARATION; SILICON; SOLAR POWER; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHARGE SEPARATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; PYROLYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SYNTHESIS; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84881162564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3195     Document Type: Article

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