Compositional screening of the Pb-Bi-Mo-O system. Spontaneous formation of a composite of p-PbMoO4 and n-Bi2O3 with improved photoelectrochemical efficiency and stability

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2707-2710

  Nam, Ki Min ^a   Park, Hyun S ^a   Lee, Heung Chan ^a   Meekins, Benjamin H ^a   Leonard, Kevin C ^a   Bard, Allen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

p PbMoO4 n Bi2O3; p type photocatalyst; p type semiconductor; Pb Bi Mo trimetal oxide system; scanning eletrochemical microscopy

Indexed keywords

P TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR; P-TYPE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SCREENING EXPERIMENTS; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; TRIMETAL OXIDES;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LEAD; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LEAD OXIDE;

EID: 84882439356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401334k     Document Type: Article

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