Effect of surface passivation on photoelectrochemical water splitting performance of WO3 vertical plate-like films

Catalysts

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2024-2038

  Yang, Yahui ^a   Xie, Renrui ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Li, Jie ^b   Li, Wenzhang ^b  

^a HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HfO2; Photoelectrochemical performance; Surface passivation; WO3

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948747286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal5042024     Document Type: Article

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