Overall water splitting by Ta3N5 nanorod single crystals grown on the edges of KTaO3 particles

Nature Catalysis

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 756-763

  Wang, Zheng ^a,c   Inoue, Yasunobu ^a,b   Hisatomi, Takashi ^a,c   Ishikawa, Ryo ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Takata, Tsuyoshi ^a,c   Chen, Shanshan ^a,c   Shibata, Naoya ^a   Ikuhara, Yuichi ^a   Domen, Kazunari ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Technological Research Association of Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process (ARPChem)   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; WATER ABSORPTION;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; NITRIDATION PROCESS; POTASSIUM SPECIES; SIMULATED SUNLIGHT; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85053051047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25201158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0134-1     Document Type: Article

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