Efficient visible light photocatalyst fabricated by depositing plasmonic Ag nanoparticles on conductive polymer-protected Si nanowire arrays for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9742-9750

  Duan, Chunyang ^a,c   Wang, Hui ^a   Ou, Xuemei ^a   Li, Fan ^a   Zhang, Xiaohong ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

PEDOT; photoelectrochemical cell; plasmonic Ag nanoparticles; SiNW array

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLASMONS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

AG NANOPARTICLE; INCIDENT PHOTO-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PEDOT; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SINW ARRAY; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

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EID: 84903545148     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5021414     Document Type: Article

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