Photocatalytic water splitting under visible light by mixed-valence Sn 3O4

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3790-3793

  Manikandan, Maidhily ^a,b   Tanabe, Toyokazu ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Ueda, Shigenori ^a   Ramesh, Gubbala V ^a   Kodiyath, Rajesh ^a   Wang, Junjie ^a   Hara, Toru ^a   Dakshanamoorthy, Arivuoli ^b   Ishihara, Shinsuke ^a   Ariga, Katsuhiko ^a,c   Ye, Jinhua ^a   Umezawa, Naoto ^a,c   Abe, Hideki ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

mixed valence; photocatalyst; tin oxide; visible light; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PLATINUM; TIN OXIDES;

ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HYDROTHERMAL ROUTES; MIXED VALENCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT; WATER SPLITTING;

TIN;

EID: 84897004931     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500157u     Document Type: Article

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