Fabrication of an Efficient BiVO4-TiO2 Heterojunction Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 31, 2016, Pages 20032-20039

  Cheng, Bo Yan ^a   Yang, Jih Sheng ^a   Cho, Hsun Wei ^a   Wu, Jih Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bismuth vanadate; charge separation and injection efficiencies; heterojunction; photoelectrochemical water oxidation; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CHARGE INJECTION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON INJECTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXIDATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER INJECTION;

BISMUTH VANADATES; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; INJECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCURRENT TRANSIENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84981356900     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05489     Document Type: Article

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