Boron-Doped Silicon Diatom Frustules as a Photocathode for Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 17381-17387

  Chandrasekaran, Soundarrajan ^a   Macdonald, Thomas J ^b   Gerson, Andrea R ^a,b   Nann, Thomas ^b   Voelcker, Nicolas H ^a  

^a Mawson Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

boron; diatom frustules; hydrogen; photocatalysis; silicon

Indexed keywords

BORON; ELECTROCATALYSTS; HYDROGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ANTIREFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; BORON-DOPED SILICON; DIATOM FRUSTULES; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SILICON DEVICES; WATER SPLITTING;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84939181531     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04640     Document Type: Article

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