Mechanistic insights into chemical and photochemical transformations of bismuth vanadate photoanodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Toma, Francesca M ^a   Cooper, Jason K ^a   Kunzelmann, Viktoria ^a,b   McDowell, Matthew T ^c,d,f   Yu, Jie ^a   Larson, David M ^a   Borys, Nicholas J ^a   Abelyan, Christine ^a   Beeman, Jeffrey W ^a   Yu, Kin Man ^a,g   Yang, Jinhui ^a   Chen, Le ^a   Shaner, Matthew R ^c,d   Spurgeon, Joshua ^c,d,h   Houle, Frances A ^a   Persson, Kristin A ^a,e   Sharp, Ian D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; VANADIC ACID;

BISMUTH; CORROSION; LATTICE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLAR POWER; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; CORROSION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYSTERESIS; IONIC STRENGTH; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84977276701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12012     Document Type: Article

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