Aligned Fe2 TiO5-containing nanotube arrays with low onset potential for visible-light water oxidation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Qinghua ^a   He, Jingfu ^a,b   Yao, Tao ^a   Sun, Zhihu ^a   Cheng, Weiren ^a   He, Shi ^b   Xie, Yi ^b   Peng, Yanhua ^a   Cheng, Hao ^a   Sun, Yongfu ^b   Jiang, Yong ^a   Hu, Fengchun ^a   Xie, Zhi ^a   Yan, Wensheng ^a   Pan, Zhiyun ^a   Wu, Ziyu ^a   Wei, Shiqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBE; PSEUDOBROOKITE NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EFFECT; OXIDATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; IMPEDANCE; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; OXIDATION;

EID: 84923233658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6122     Document Type: Article

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