Oxygen Vacancies Engineering of Iron Oxides Films for Solar Water Splitting

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 7482-7490

  Rioult, Maxime ^a,b   Stanescu, Dana ^a   Fonda, Emiliano ^b   Barbier, Antoine ^a   Magnan, Hélène ^a  

^a SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORUNDUM; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HEMATITE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MAGNETITE; MIXING; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; ORE REDUCTION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

CONTROLLED STOICHIOMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETITE OXIDATION; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION RANGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84964425012     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00552     Document Type: Article

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