Simultaneous etching and doping of TiO2 nanowire arrays for enhanced photoelectrochemical performance

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 9375-9383

  Wang, Yongcheng ^a   Zhang, Yue Yu ^a   Tang, Jing ^a   Wu, Haoyu ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Peng, Zheng ^a   Gong, Xin Gao ^a   Zheng, Gengfeng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

density functional theory; doping; etching; nanowires; photoelectrochemical; TiO2

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; HYDROTHERMAL ETCHING; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; TIO;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; NANOWIRES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84886995208     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4040876     Document Type: Article

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