Solar fuels photoanode materials discovery by integrating high-throughput theory and experiment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 3040-3043

  Yan, Qimin ^a,b   Yu, Jie ^a,c   Suram, Santosh K ^c   Zhou, Lan ^c   Shinde, Aniketa ^c   Newhouse, Paul F ^c   Chend, Wei ^a   Li, Guo ^a,b   Persson, Kristin A ^a,d   Gregoire, John M ^c   Neaton, Jeffrey B ^a,b,e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^e Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex oxides; Density functional theory; High throughput experiments; Photocatalysis; Solar fuels materials

Indexed keywords

FUEL; METAL OXIDE; VANADIC ACID;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85016119744     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619940114     Document Type: Article

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