Photochemical Charge Separation at Particle Interfaces: The n-BiVO4-p-Silicon System

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5959-5964

  Yang, Yuxin ^a,b   Wang, Jiarui ^b   Zhao, Jing ^b   Nail, Benjamin A ^b   Yuan, Xing ^a   Guo, Yihang ^a   Osterloh, Frank E ^b  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

photocatalyst; photoelectrochemistry; surface photovoltage spectroscopy; tandem; water splitting; z scheme

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATINGS; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SEPARATION; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THICK FILMS;

PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGE SPECTROSCOPY; TANDEM; WATER SPLITTING; Z-SCHEME;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84925373053     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00257     Document Type: Article

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