Cu2ZnSnS4-Ag2S Nanoscale p-n Heterostructures as Sensitizers for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 10555-10561

  Yu, Xuelian ^a,b   Liu, Jingjing ^c   Genç, Aziz ^d   Ibáñez, Maria ^b   Luo, Zhishan ^b   Shavel, Alexey ^b   Arbiol, Jordi ^d,e   Zhang, Guangjin ^c   Zhang, Yihe ^a   Cabot, Andreu ^b,e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; TIN COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION PROPERTY; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY;

SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84942791579     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02490     Document Type: Article

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