NH3-Assisted Flux Growth of Cube-like BaTaO2N Submicron Crystals in a Completely Ionized Nonaqueous High-Temperature Solution and Their Water Splitting Activity

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4663-4671

  Hojamberdiev, Mirabbos ^a   Yubuta, Kunio ^b   Vequizo, Junie Jhon M ^c   Yamakata, Akira ^c   Oishi, Shuji ^a   Domen, Kazunari ^d   Teshima, Katsuya ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DEFECTS; GEOMETRY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS;

DIRECT SYNTHESIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGY TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

DEFECT DENSITY;

EID: 84941008902     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00927     Document Type: Article

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