Enhanced Solar Water Splitting by Swift Charge Separation in Au/FeOOH Sandwiched Single-Crystalline Fe2O3 Nanoflake Photoelectrodes

ChemSusChem

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 2720-2727

  Wang, Lei ^a   Nguyen, Nhat Truong ^b   Zhang, Yajun ^a   Bi, Yingpu ^a   Schmuki, Patrik ^b,c  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

electrocatalysis; gold; hematite; photoelectrodes; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HEMATITE; IRON; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; THERMOOXIDATION;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTO-ELECTRODES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; WATER SPLITTING;

GOLD;

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; GOLD; IRON DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SUNLIGHT;

ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GOLD; IRON COMPOUNDS; MINERALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SUNLIGHT; WATER;

EID: 85020251690     PISSN: 18645631     EISSN: 1864564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700522     Document Type: Article

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