Controlled Growth of Ferrihydrite Branched Nanosheet Arrays and Their Transformation to Hematite Nanosheet Arrays for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3651-3660

  Ji, Mei ^a   Cai, Jinguang ^a   Ma, Yurong ^a   Qi, Limin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ferrihydrite; hematite; morphology engineering; nanosheet arrays; photoelectrochemical water splitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HEMATITE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FERRIHYDRITES; IRREGULAR AGGREGATES; NANOSHEET ARRAYS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 84958958860     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08116     Document Type: Article

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