Effect of Phase Junction Structure on the Photocatalytic Performance in Overall Water Splitting: Ga2O3 Photocatalyst as an Example

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 18221-18228

  Jin, Shaoqing ^a,b   Wang, Xiang ^a   Wang, Xiuli ^a   Ju, Minggang ^c   Shen, Shuai ^a   Liang, Wanzhen ^d,e   Zhao, Yi ^d,e   Feng, Zhaochi ^a   Playford, Helen Y ^f   Walton, Richard I ^f   Li, Can ^a,e  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; WATER SPLITTING REACTIONS;

GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84939129625     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04092     Document Type: Article

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