Direct in Situ Measurement of Charge Transfer Processes during Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation on Catalyzed Hematite

ACS Central Science

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1015-1025

  Qiu, Jingjing ^a   Hajibabaei, Hamed ^b   Nellist, Michael R ^a   Laskowski, Forrest A L ^a   Hamann, Thomas W ^b   Boettcher, Shannon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROCATALYSTS; HEMATITE; LIGHT; OXIDATION;

CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GENERATION MECHANISM; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER OXIDATION; PHOTOGENERATED HOLES; WATER OXIDATION CATALYSTS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85029942883     PISSN: 23747943     EISSN: 23747951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00310     Document Type: Article

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