Stable solar-driven water oxidation to o2(G) by ni-oxide-coated silicon photoanodes

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 592-598

  Sun, Ke ^a,b   McDowell, Matthew T ^a,b   Nielander, Adam C ^a   Hu, Shu ^a,b   Shaner, Matthew R ^a,b   Yang, Fan ^a,b   Brunschwig, Bruce S ^c   Lewis, Nathan S ^a,b,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

photoanodes; semiconductors; solar fuels; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY GAP; FUELS; NICKEL OXIDE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE; EFFICIENT OXIDATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIALS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; SOLAR FUELS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; WATER SPLITTING;

SILICON;

EID: 84923332748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5026195     Document Type: Article

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