Materials for solar fuels and chemicals

Nature Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 70-81

  Montoya, Joseph H ^a,b,c   Seitz, Linsey C ^a,b,d   Chakthranont, Pongkarn ^a,b   Vojvodic, Aleksandra ^a,b   Jaramillo, Thomas F ^a,b   Nørskov, Jens K ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; FUELS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); WATER ABSORPTION;

EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; PHOTOELECTROCATALYTIC; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR FUELS; STATE OF THE ART; WATER SPLITTING;

FUEL STORAGE;

EID: 85006964017     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4778     Document Type: Article

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