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Yuya Kado1, Chong-Yong Lee, Kiyoung Lee
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstrasse 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 24, 2012
Abstract:
We use a highly aligned Ta(2)O(5) nanochannel structure to fabricate alkali metal ion (Na, K, Rb or Cs) doped Ta(3)N(5)via solution seeding and thermal conversion in NH(3). Under optimized conditions the resulting doped structures show a strongly enhanced visible light water splitting performance in comparison to undoped Ta(3)N(5).
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