Interface induce growth of intermediate layer for bandgap engineering insights into photoelectrochemical water splitting

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Qiaoxia ^a   Wang, Lianhui ^a   Li, Xing'ao ^a   Huang, Wei ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84973311817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27241     Document Type: Article

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