Improving the efficiency of hematite nanorods for photoelectrochemical water splitting by doping with manganese

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5852-5859

  Gurudayal, G ^a   Chiam, Sing Yang ^b   Kumar, Mulmudi Hemant ^a   Bassi, Prince Saurabh ^a   Seng, Hwee Leng ^b   Barber, James ^a,c,d   Wong, Lydia Helena ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial photosynthesis; hematite; Mott Schottky; photoelectrochemistry; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; HEMATITE; NANORODS; PHOTOCURRENTS;

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; MOTT-SCHOTTKY; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; WATER SPLITTING;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84899523604     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500643y     Document Type: Article

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