Charge separation via asymmetric illumination in photocatalytic Cu2O particles

Nature Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 655-663

  Chen, Ruotian ^a,b   Pang, Shan ^a   An, Hongyu ^a,b   Zhu, Jian ^a   Ye, Sheng ^a   Gao, Yuying ^a,b   Fan, Fengtao ^a   Li, Can ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; CHARGE SEPARATION PROCESS; DIFFUSION CONTROLLED; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGES;

SEPARATION;

ASYMMETRY; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; COPPER; ELECTRON; IRRADIATION; OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEPARATION; SYMMETRY;

EID: 85049559404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0194-0     Document Type: Article

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