Improving hematite-based photoelectrochemical water splitting with ultrathin TiO2 by atomic layer deposition

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12005-12011

  Yang, Xiaogang ^a,b   Liu, Rui ^b   Du, Chun ^b   Dai, Pengcheng ^b,c   Zheng, Zhi ^a   Wang, Dunwei ^b  

^a XUCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hematite; passivation; photoelectrochemistry; photovoltage; solar water splitting

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HEMATITE; PASSIVATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; TIO;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84906242762     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500948t     Document Type: Article

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