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Title: Stability and self-passivation of copper vanadate photoanodes under chemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical operation

Journal Article · · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP00473C· OSTI ID:1334192
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  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Molecular Foundry; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Molecular Foundry; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technologies Division
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Molecular Foundry; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Kavli Energy Nanosciences Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technologies Division

Self-passivation under operational conditions is observed for several copper vanadate photoanodes, demonstrating their viability for durable solar fuels devices.

Research Organization:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0004993; AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1334192
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1454462
Journal Information:
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Vol. 18, Issue 14; ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 55 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Computational Approaches to Photoelectrode Design through Molecular Functionalization for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting journal November 2018
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Assembly of β-Cu 2 V 2 O 7 /WO 3 heterostructured nanocomposites and the impact of their composition on structure and photoelectrochemical properties journal January 2018
Unveiling new stable manganese based photoanode materials via theoretical high-throughput screening and experiments journal January 2019
Solar fuels photoanode materials discovery by integrating high-throughput theory and experiment journal March 2017
Degradation in photoelectrochemical devices: review with an illustrative case study journal February 2017
Recent developments in complex metal oxide photoelectrodes journal April 2017
Visible Light Driven Photoanodes for Water Oxidation Based on Novel r-GO/β-Cu2V2O7/TiO2 Nanorods Composites journal July 2018

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