TiO2 nanotubes modified with electrochemically reduced graphene oxide for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Carbon

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 591-598

  Zhang, Xiaofan ^a   Zhang, Bingyan ^a   Huang, Dekang ^a   Yuan, Huailiang ^a   Wang, Mingkui ^a   Shen, Yan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANOTUBES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; YARN;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICALLY REDUCED GRAPHENE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LIGHT SOAKING; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84920487693     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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