Protection strategy for improved catalytic stability of silicon photoanodes for water oxidation

Science Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 1395-1402

  Xia, Zhaoming ^a   Zhou, Xuemei ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Qu, Yongquan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Photocatalysis; Protection layer; Silicon photoanode; Stability; Water oxidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982736705     PISSN: 20959273     EISSN: 20959281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-015-0857-1     Document Type: Review

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