Recent advances in the BiVO4 photocatalyst for sun-driven water oxidation: Top-performing photoanodes and scale-up challenges

Catalysts

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Tolod, Kristine Rodulfo ^a,b   Hernández, Simelys ^a   Russo, Nunzio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial photosynthesis; BiVO4 photoanode; Solar fuels; Tandem cells; Water oxidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008600471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal7010013     Document Type: Review

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