Ultrastable low-bias water splitting photoanodes via photocorrosion inhibition and in situ catalyst regeneration

Nature Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kuang, Yongbo ^a,b   Jia, Qingxin ^a,b   Ma, Guijun ^a,b   Hisatomi, Takashi ^a,b   Minegishi, Tsutomu ^a,b   Nishiyama, Hiroshi ^a,b   Nakabayashi, Mamiko ^a,b   Shibata, Naoya ^a   Yamada, Taro ^a,b   Kudo, Akihiko ^b,c   Domen, Kazunari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Technological Research Association of Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process (ARPChem)   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CATALYST REGENERATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION RATE; PHOTOCORROSION INHIBITIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; WATER SPLITTING SYSTEM;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 85018369976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.191     Document Type: Article

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