Amorphous and Crystalline Sodium Tantalate Composites for Photocatalytic Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 23153-23162

  Grewe, Tobias ^a   Tüysüz, Harun ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

amorphous; hydrogen production; nanoparticle; solar energy; water splitting

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; AUTOCLAVES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOPARTICLES; SODIUM; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE SOLUTION; AMORPHOUS AND CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; CRYSTALLINE NANOPARTICLES; DEGREES OF CRYSTALLINITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTROSCOPY; WATER SPLITTING;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84945372305     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06965     Document Type: Article

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