Mesoporous WO3 photoanodes for hydrogen production by water splitting and PhotoFuelCell operation

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 5902-5907

  Sfaelou, Stavroula ^a   Pop, Lucian Cristian ^a   Monfort, Olivier ^a   Dracopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydrogen production; PhotoFuelCells; Tungsten trioxide; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NANOCRYSTALS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NANO-CRYSTALLINE FILMS; ORGANIC WASTES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOFUELCELLS; SOFT CHEMISTRY; TUNGSTEN TRIOXIDE; WATER SPLITTING;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 85027922536     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.02.063     Document Type: Article

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