Establishing Efficient Cobalt-Based Catalytic Sites for Oxygen Evolution on a Ta3N5 Photocatalyst

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 5685-5694

  Nurlaela, Ela ^a   Ould Chikh, Samy ^a   Llorens, Isabelle ^b   Hazemann, Jean Louis ^c   Takanabe, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT COMPOUNDS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCATALYTIC; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; PRETREATMENT EFFECTS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENSION SYSTEM; VISIBLE LIGHT RESPONSIVE;

TANTALUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84940094710     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02139     Document Type: Article

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