Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen by core-shell WO3/BiVO4 nanorods with ultimate water splitting efficiency

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pihosh, Yuriy ^a   Turkevych, Ivan ^b,d   Mawatari, Kazuma ^a   Uemura, Jin ^a   Kazoe, Yutaka ^a   Kosar, Sonya ^a,c   Makita, Kikuo ^b   Sugaya, Takeyoshi ^b   Matsui, Takuya ^b   Fujita, Daisuke ^d   Tosa, Masahiro ^d   Kondo, Michio ^b   Kitamori, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 84930959042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11141     Document Type: Article

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