Origin of the Different Photoelectrochemical Performance of Mesoporous BiVO4 Photoanodes between the BiVO4 and the FTO Side Illumination

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 23350-23357

  Xiao, Shuang ^a,b   Chen, Haining ^a   Yang, Zhengshi ^c   Long, Xia ^a   Wang, Zilong ^a   Zhu, Zonglong ^a   Qu, Yongquan ^b   Yang, Shihe ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ELECTRON DIFFUSION; INTENSITY MODULATED PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY (IMPS); MESOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84944398480     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07505     Document Type: Article

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