Turning off the “shunt channel” by coating with CoFe layered double hydroxide nanocrystals for efficient photoelectrocatalytic water splitting
Peicheng Wei, Wen Yan, Kaifeng Lin, Xin Li
Abstract
Tiny and crystalline CoFe(C) nanoparticles can close the “shunt channel” between the cocatalyst and the substrate, and the recombination of photogenerated charge caused by back-reaction is inhibited.
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