Scalable Binder-Free Supersonic Cold Spraying of Nanotextured Cupric Oxide (CuO) Films as Efficient Photocathodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 15406-15414

  Lee, Jong Gun ^a   Kim, Do Yeon ^a   Lee, Jong Hyuk ^a   Kim, Min Woo ^a   An, Seongpil ^a   Jo, Hong Seok ^a   Nervi, Carlo ^b,e   Al Deyab, Salem S ^c   Swihart, Mark T ^d   Yoon, Sam S ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d State University of New York   (United States)

^e Consorzio Interuniversitario Reattivitá Chimica e Catalisi ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

cupric oxide (CuO); cuprous oxide (Cu2O); nanotextured surface; supersonic cold spray; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDERS; BINS; COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ITO GLASS; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOCATHODES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPRAY NOZZLES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIN OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COLD SPRAY; CUPRIC OXIDE; CUPROUS OXIDE; NANOTEXTURED SURFACE; WATER SPLITTING;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84976260654     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03968     Document Type: Article

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