Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nanostructures for solar fuels

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 423-447

  Baxter, Jason B ^a   Richter, Christiaan ^b   Schmuttenmaer, Charles A ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe2O3; hematite; hydrogen generation; interfacial electron transfer; TiO2; transient absorption; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); CHROMOPHORES; FUELS; HEMATITE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROGEN STORAGE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR FUELS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER ABSORPTION;

ENERGY; HAEMATITE; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOELECTRODE; SOLAR FUELS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRAFAST CARRIER DYNAMICS; WATER OXIDATION;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COLLOID; COLORING AGENT; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; OXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM; WATER;

EID: 84897499891     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040513-103742     Document Type: Article

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