A Facile Surface Passivation of Hematite Photoanodes with TiO2 Overlayers for Efficient Solar Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 24053-24062

  Ahmed, Mahmoud G ^a   Kretschmer, Imme E ^b   Kandiel, Tarek A ^a   Ahmed, Amira Y ^a   Rashwan, Farouk A ^a   Bahnemann, Detlef W ^b,c  

^a Sohag University   (Egypt)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

hydrogen production; nanostructured hematite photoanodes; passivation overlayers; photoelectrochemistry; TiO2; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HEMATITE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PASSIVATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TREATMENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

OVERLAYERS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; TIO; WATER SPLITTING;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84946403484     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07065     Document Type: Article

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