Photocatalytic water splitting - The untamed dream: A review of recent advances

Molecules

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Jafari, Tahereh ^a   Moharreri, Ehsan ^a   Amin, Alireza Shirazi ^a   Miao, Ran ^a   Song, Wenqiao ^a   Suib, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Metal oxides; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Photocatalysis; Photocatalysts; Semiconductors; Solar fuels; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METAL; WATER;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; WATER;

EID: 84979272997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules21070900     Document Type: Review

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