Exceptional performance of photoelectrochemical water oxidation of single-crystal rutile TiO2 nanorods dependent on the hole trapping of modified chloride

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Xuliang ^a   Cui, Haiqin ^a   Humayun, Muhammad ^a   Qu, Yang ^a   Fan, Naiying ^a   Sun, Xiaojun ^b   Jing, Liqiang ^a  

^a HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84959387079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21430     Document Type: Article

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