Identification of optimal solar fuel electrocatalysts via high throughput in situ optical measurements

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 442-450

  Shinde, Aniketa ^a   Guevarra, Dan ^a   Haber, Joel A ^a   Jin, Jian ^b   Gregoire, John M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

catalytic; Combinatorial synthesis; optical properties

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; FUELS; INK JET PRINTING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NICKEL; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY;

CATALYTIC; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; COMBINATORIAL SYNTHESIS; IN-SITU OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 85027918559     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.296     Document Type: Article

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