Photoelectrochemical water splitting promoted with a disordered surface layer created by electrochemical reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3791-3796

  Yan, Pengli ^a,b   Liu, Guiji ^b,c   Ding, Chunmei ^b,c   Han, Hongxian ^b   Shi, Jingying ^b   Gan, Yang ^a   Li, Can ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

charge injection efficiency; electrochemical reduction; surface disordered layer; TiO2 nanorod arrays; water splitting

Indexed keywords

DISCOVERY WELLS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; NANORODS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; INJECTION EFFICIENCY; NANO-ROD ARRAYS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; WATER SPLITTING;

OXIDE MINERALS;

EID: 84923221776     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508738d     Document Type: Article

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