Discovery of Fe-Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni-Fe-Co-Ce Oxide Coatings

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 36, 2016, Pages 23696-23705

  Shinde, Aniketa ^a   Guevarra, Dan ^a   Liu, Guiji ^b   Sharp, Ian D ^b   Toma, Francesca M ^b   Gregoire, John M ^a   Haber, Joel A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

high throughput experimentation; materials integration; oxygen evolution reaction; photoanode; solar fuels

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COBALT; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NICKEL; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; THROUGHPUT;

CATALYST COMPOSITION; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION; METAL OXIDE COATINGS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR FUELS;

CERIUM;

EID: 84987788572     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06714     Document Type: Article

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