Unassisted solar-driven photoelectrosynthetic HI splitting using membrane-embedded Si microwire arrays

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1484-1492

  Ardo, Shane ^a   Park, Sang Hee ^b   Warren, Emily L ^a   Lewis, Nathan S ^a,c,d,e  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANES; PLATINUM;

ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GROWTH SUBSTRATES; MEMBRANE-BOUND; MICROWIRE ARRAY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PT ELECTROCATALYSTS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID GROWTH;

SILICON;

ARRAY; CATALYST; COMPOSITE; COPPER; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRON; HYDROGEN; IODIDE; MEMBRANE; PLATINUM; SILICON; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84928950909     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ee00227c     Document Type: Article

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