Homogeneous Electron Doping into Nonstoichiometric Strontium Titanate Improves Its Photocatalytic Activity for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 7190-7200

  Nishioka, Shunta ^a,b   Hyodo, Junji ^c   Vequizo, Junie Jhon M ^d   Yamashita, Shunsuke ^e   Kumagai, Hiromu ^a   Kimoto, Koji ^e   Yamakata, Akira ^d   Yamazaki, Yoshihiro ^c   Maeda, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

AQUEOUS METHANOL SOLUTIONS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; OXYGEN NON-STOICHIOMETRIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; SILVER NITRATE SOLUTIONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 85048857657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21555435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01379     Document Type: Article

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