Scalable water splitting on particulate photocatalyst sheets with a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency exceeding 1%

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 611-615

  Wang, Qian ^a,b   Hisatomi, Takashi ^a,b   Jia, Qingxin ^a,b   Tokudome, Hiromasa ^b,c   Zhong, Miao ^a,b   Wang, Chizhong ^a   Pan, Zhenhua ^a   Takata, Tsuyoshi ^d   Nakabayashi, Mamiko ^a   Shibata, Naoya ^a   Li, Yanbo ^e   Sharp, Ian D ^e   Kudo, Akihiko ^f   Yamada, Taro ^a,b   Domen, Kazunari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ARPChem   (Japan)

^c TOTO LTD   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY CONVERSION; GOLD; HYDROGEN; RHODIUM; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; SURFACE REACTIONS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; OXIDATION ACTIVITIES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN; WATER REDUCTION; WATER SPLITTING; WATER SPLITTING REACTIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84960153588     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4589     Document Type: Article

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