Corrigendum to “A facile one-step strategy for in-situ fabrication of WO3-BiVO4 nanoarrays for solar-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting applications” [Solar Energy 144 (2017) 604–611] (S0038092X17300762) (10.1016/j.solener.2017.01.057));A facile one-step strategy for in-situ fabrication of WO3-BiVO4 nanoarrays for solar-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting applications

Solar Energy

Volumn 144, Issue , 2017, Pages 604-611

  Iqbal, Naseer ^a,b   Khan, Ibrahim ^a   Yamani, Zain Hassan Abdallah ^a   Qurashi, Ahsanulhaq ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Heteronanostructures; Hydrothermal; Nanorods; Solar water splitting; Tungsten oxide bismuth vanadate

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; ENERGY GAP; FABRICATION; METALS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

BISMUTH VANADATES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY ANALYSIS (EDX); HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; HYDROTHERMAL; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; OXIDATION AND REDUCTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

BISMUTH; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDATION; OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOLAR POWER; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM; WATER;

EID: 85012134736     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.12.017     Document Type: Erratum

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