A multifunctional biphasic water splitting catalyst tailored for integration with high-performance semiconductor photoanodes

Nature Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 335-341

  Yang, Jinhui ^a   Cooper, Jason K ^a   Toma, Francesca M ^a   Walczak, Karl A ^a   Favaro, Marco ^a   Beeman, Jeffrey W ^a   Hess, Lucas H ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Zhu, Chenhui ^a   Gul, Sheraz ^a   Yano, Junko ^a   Kisielowski, Christian ^a   Schwartzberg, Adam ^a   Sharp, Ian D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; COBALT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCRYSTALS;

CATALYTIC MATERIALS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE SEMICONDUCTORS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84994644852     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4794     Document Type: Article

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