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Title: Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO 4 overlayers

Abstract

Artificial photosynthetic approaches require the combination of light absorbers interfaced with overlayers that enhance charge transport and collection to perform catalytic reactions.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, National Center for Electron Microscopy
  3. Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Publication Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1482409
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0004993; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Sustainable Energy & Fuels Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Liu, Guiji, Eichhorn, Johanna, Jiang, Chang-Ming, Scott, Mary C., Hess, Lucas H., Gregoire, John M., Haber, Joel A., Sharp, Ian D., and Toma, Francesca M. Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO 4 overlayers. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1039/C8SE00473K.
Liu, Guiji, Eichhorn, Johanna, Jiang, Chang-Ming, Scott, Mary C., Hess, Lucas H., Gregoire, John M., Haber, Joel A., Sharp, Ian D., & Toma, Francesca M. Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO 4 overlayers. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00473K
Liu, Guiji, Eichhorn, Johanna, Jiang, Chang-Ming, Scott, Mary C., Hess, Lucas H., Gregoire, John M., Haber, Joel A., Sharp, Ian D., and Toma, Francesca M. Tue . "Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO 4 overlayers". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00473K.
@article{osti_1482409,
title = {Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO 4 overlayers},
author = {Liu, Guiji and Eichhorn, Johanna and Jiang, Chang-Ming and Scott, Mary C. and Hess, Lucas H. and Gregoire, John M. and Haber, Joel A. and Sharp, Ian D. and Toma, Francesca M.},
abstractNote = {Artificial photosynthetic approaches require the combination of light absorbers interfaced with overlayers that enhance charge transport and collection to perform catalytic reactions.},
doi = {10.1039/C8SE00473K},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2019},
month = {1}
}

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