Heterostructured Cu2O/CuO decorated with nickel as a highly efficient photocathode for photoelectrochemical water reduction

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 3, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12482-12499

  Dubale, Amare Aregahegn ^a   Pan, Chun Jern ^a   Tamirat, Andebet Gedamu ^a   Chen, Hung Ming ^a   Su, Wei Nien ^a   Chen, Ching Hsiang ^a   Rick, John ^a   Ayele, Delele Worku ^a   Aragaw, Belete Asefa ^a   Lee, Jyh Fu ^b   Yang, Yaw Wen ^b   Hwang, Bing Joe ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NICKEL; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOCURRENTS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84930966095     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta01961c     Document Type: Article

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