Enabling silicon photoanodes for efficient solar water splitting by electroless-deposited nickel

Nano Research

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 3499-3508

  Zhao, Jiheng ^a   Gill, Thomas Mark ^a   Zheng, Xiaolin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

electroless plating; Ni deposition; oxygen evolution reaction (OER); photoelectrochemical water splitting; Si photoanode

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; ELECTROLESS PLATING; NICKEL; OXIDATION; PASSIVATION;

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE; EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SATURATION CURRENT DENSITIES; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 85044028895     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-018-2038-4     Document Type: Article

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