A strategy of engineering impurity distribution in metal oxide nanostructures for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Journal of Materiomics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 134-145

  Shen, Shaohua ^a   Chen, Jianan ^a   Cai, Li ^a   Ren, Feng ^b   Guo, Liejin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Doping; Engineered impurity distribution; Metal oxides; Photoelectrochemical water splitting; Visible light

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013142513     PISSN: 23528478     EISSN: 23528486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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