Highly Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Efficiency Based on Triadic Quantum Dot/Layered Double Hydroxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 30, 2016, Pages 19446-19455

  Tang, Yanqun ^a,b   Wang, Ruirui ^a   Yang, Ye ^c   Yan, Dongpeng ^a,b   Xiang, Xu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

layered double hydroxides; photoanodes; photoelectrochemistry; quantum dots; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONS; HOT ELECTRONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REACTION KINETICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEPARATION;

LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; TYPE II BAND ALIGNMENTS; WATER OXIDATION;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84982683393     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04937     Document Type: Article

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