Why do Hydrogen and Oxygen Yields from Semiconductor-Based Photocatalyzed Water Splitting Remain Disappointingly Low? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Impacting Surface Redox Reactions

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 931-948

  Serpone, Nick ^a   Emeline, Alexei V ^b   Ryabchuk, Vladimir K ^b   Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav N ^b   Artem'Ev, Yurii M ^b   Horikoshi, Satoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; REDOX REACTIONS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE REACTIONS;

EVOLUTION OF HYDROGENS; EXTRINSIC FACTORS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PROCESS EFFICIENCY; SACRIFICIAL ELECTRON DONORS; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; SIMULATED SUNLIGHT;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 85002816366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00391     Document Type: Review

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