Fabrication of transparent-conducting-oxide-coated inverse opals as mesostructured architectures for electrocatalysis applications: A case study with NiO

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12290-12294

  Williams, Vennesa O ^a,b   Demarco, Erica J ^a,b   Katz, Michael J ^a   Libera, Joseph A ^b   Riha, Shannon C ^b   Kim, Dong Wook ^a   Avila, Jason R ^a   Martinson, Alex B F ^b   Elam, Jeffrey W ^b   Pellin, Michael J ^a,b   Farha, Omar K ^a,c   Hupp, Joseph T ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

atomic layer deposition; catalysis; electrochemistry; inverse opals; nickel oxide; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DEPOSITION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NICKEL OXIDE; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLAR CELLS;

CONDUCTING STRUCTURE; CRACK FREE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HIGH SURFACE AREA; INVERSE OPAL; MESOSTRUCTURED; TIN DOPED INDIUM OXIDE; WATER OXIDATION;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84906252962     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501910n     Document Type: Article

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