Rate Law Analysis of Water Oxidation and Hole Scavenging on a BiVO4 Photoanode

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 618-623

  Ma, Yimeng ^a,b   Mesa, Camilo A ^a   Pastor, Ernest ^a,e   Kafizas, Andreas ^a,c   Francàs, Laia ^a   Le Formal, Florian ^a,d   Pendlebury, Stephanie R ^a   Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SCAVENGING; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY; SURFACE REACTIONS;

BISMUTH VANADATES; FIRST ORDER REACTIONS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; POTASSIUM FERROCYANIDE; QUASI-STEADY STATE; SPECTROELECTROCHEMICAL STUDY; TURNOVER FREQUENCY;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85024861467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00263     Document Type: Article

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