Very High Surface Area Mesoporous Thin Films of SrTiO3 Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition and Application to Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Nano Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 7338-7345

  Sangle, Abhijeet L ^a   Singh, Simrjit ^b   Jian, Jie ^c   Bajpe, Sneha R ^a   Wang, Haiyan ^c   Khare, Neeraj ^b   Macmanus Driscoll, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

high surface area films; mesoporous crystalline thin films; photoelectrochemical water splitting; Pulsed laser deposition; self assembled nanocomposite films; SrTiO3

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

CRYSTALLINE MESOPOROUS; CRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HIGH SURFACE AREA MESOPOROUS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SINGLE CRYSTAL SAMPLES; SRTIO;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 85006257703     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02487     Document Type: Article

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