Undoped and Ni-Doped CoOx Surface Modification of Porous BiVO4 Photoelectrodes for Water Oxidation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 41, 2016, Pages 23449-23457

  Liu, Ya ^a,b   Guo, Youhong ^c   Schelhas, Laura T ^d   Li, Mingtao ^b   Ager, Joel W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; ENERGY HARVESTING; NICKEL; OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REACTION KINETICS; SPRAY PYROLYSIS; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPOSITION CONTROL; DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; ELECTROSTATIC SPRAY; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SURFACE BAND BENDING;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84992316225     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08654     Document Type: Article

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