Self-Assembled Heteroepitaxial Oxide Nanocomposite for Photoelectrochemical Solar Water Oxidation

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3017-3023

  Cho, Seungho ^a   Jang, Ji Wook ^b   Li, Leigang ^c   Jian, Jie ^d   Wang, Haiyan ^c,d   Macmanus Driscoll, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLAR ENERGY;

CRYSTALLINE COMPONENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84969626634     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00122     Document Type: Article

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