Enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of porous Bi2MoO6 photoanode by an electrochemical treatment

Journal of the Electrochemical Society

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2017, Pages H299-H306

  Tang, Ding ^a,b   Mabayoje, Oluwaniyi ^b   Lai, Yanqing ^a   Liu, Yexiang ^a   Mullins, C Buddie ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; ISO-ELECTRIC POINTS; MOLYBDATE SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE BUFFER SOLUTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY;

EID: 85027875259     PISSN: 00134651     EISSN: 19457111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1149/2.0271706jes     Document Type: Article

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