Earth-abundant catalysts for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting

Nature Reviews Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Roger, Isolda ^a   Shipman, Michael A ^a   Symes, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1038/s41570-016-0003     Document Type: Review

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