Electron collection in host-guest nanostructured hematite photoanodes for water splitting: The influence of scaffold doping density

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4623-4630

  Kondofersky, Ilina ^a   Dunn, Halina K ^a   Müller, Alexander ^b   Mandlmeier, Benjamin ^a   Feckl, Johann M ^a   Fattakhova Rohlfing, Dina ^a   Scheu, Christina ^b   Peter, Laurence M ^c   Bein, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antimony doped SnO2; effective electron diffusion length; host guest; iron oxide; photoelectrochemical water splitting

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CHARGE CARRIERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; HEMATITE; IRON OXIDES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHASE INTERFACES; SCAFFOLDS; WATER ABSORPTION;

EFFECTIVE ELECTRONS; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; ELECTRON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HEMATITE NANOPARTICLES; HOST-GUESTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84924244106     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5078667     Document Type: Article

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