Facet cutting and hydrogenation of in2O3 nanowires for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4081-4088

  Meng, Ming ^a   Wu, Xinglong ^a,c   Zhu, Xiaobin ^a   Zhu, Xiaoshu ^b   Chu, Paul K ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

facet cutting; hydrogen treatment; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENATION; INTERFACE STATES;

ENHANCED LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; HYDROGEN TREATMENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; WATER SPLITTING;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84896928022     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4056358     Document Type: Article

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