Enhanced performance of photoelectrochemical water splitting with ITO@α-Fe2O3 core-shell nanowire array as photoanode

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 26482-26490

  Yang, Jie ^a   Bao, Chunxiong ^a   Yu, Tao ^a   Hu, Yingfei ^a   Luo, Wenjun ^b   Zhu, Weidong ^a   Fu, Gao ^a   Li, Zhaosheng ^a   Gao, Hao ^a   Li, Faming ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

core shell; ITO; nanowire array; photoanode; water splitting; Fe2O3

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; INDIUM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; PLATINUM; SILICON WAFERS; TIN OXIDES; WATER ABSORPTION;

CORE SHELL; ITO; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; PHOTO-ANODES; WATER SPLITTING;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84949646315     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07470     Document Type: Article

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