Photocatalysis for renewable energy production using photofuelcells

Molecules

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 19732-19750

  Michal, Robert ^a,c   Sfaelou, Stavroula ^a   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Photoelectrochemical cells; PhotoFuelCells; Quantum dot sensitizers; Solar energy conversion; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; LIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKALIES; CATALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SEMICONDUCTORS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84919741161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules191219732     Document Type: Article

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