Improved Photoelectrocatalytic Performance for Water Oxidation by Earth-Abundant Cobalt Molecular Porphyrin Complex-Integrated BiVO4 Photoanode

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 28, 2016, Pages 18577-18583

  Liu, Bin ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Wu, Hao Lin ^a   Liu, Wen Qiang ^a   Jiang, Xin ^a   Li, Zhi Jun ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Tung, Chen Ho ^a   Wu, Li Zhu ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

BiVO4; charge separation efficiency; molecular porphyrin complex; photoanode; water oxidation kinetics

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COBALT; EFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; OXIDATION; PORPHYRINS; PRECIOUS METALS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BIVO4; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; PHOTO-ANODES; PORPHYRIN COMPLEXES; WATER OXIDATION;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84979231110     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04510     Document Type: Article

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