WO3 nanoflakes for enhanced photoelectrochemical conversion

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11770-11777

  Li, Wenjie ^a   Da, Peimei ^a   Zhang, Yueyu ^a   Wang, Yongcheng ^a   Lin, Xuan ^a   Gong, Xingao ^a   Zheng, Gengfeng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Etching; Nanoflakes; Oxygen vacancy; Photoelectrochemical; Reducing; WO3

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; OXYGEN VACANCIES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; NANO-FLAKES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; REDUCING; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SIMULTANEOUS SOLUTION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84912571915     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5053684     Document Type: Article

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