Solar water splitting and nitrogen fixation with layered bismuth oxyhalides

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 112-121

  Li, Jie ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Zhan, Guangming ^a   Zhang, Lizhi ^a  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 85019620940     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00523     Document Type: Article

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