Irradiation-induced TiO2 nanorods for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 5034-5041

  Zheng, Xudong ^a   Shen, Shaohua ^b   Ren, Feng ^a   Cai, Guangxu ^a   Xing, Zhuo ^a   Liu, Yichao ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Zhang, Guozhen ^a   Xiao, Xiangheng ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Jiang, Changzhong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ion irradiation; PEC; TiO2 nanorods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937198110     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.02.087     Document Type: Article

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