Carbon nitride photocatalysts for water splitting: A computational perspective

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 24833-24842

  Butchosa, Cristina ^a   Guiglion, Pierre ^a   Zwijnenburg, Martijn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYPYRROLES;

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; NITRIDE MATERIALS; NITRIDE STRUCTURES; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; TIME-DEPENDENT DFT; WATER OXIDATION;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84949117486     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507372n     Document Type: Review

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