Gallium nitride nanowire as a linker of molybdenum sulfides and silicon for photoelectrocatalytic water splitting

Baowen Zhou; Xianghua Kong; Srinivas Vanka; Sheng Chu; Pegah Ghamari; Yichen Wang; Nick Pant; Ishiang Shih; Hong Guo; Zetian Mi

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06140-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Gallium nitride nanowire as a linker of molybdenum sulfides and silicon for photoelectrocatalytic water splitting

Baowen Zhou,
Xianghua Kong,
Srinivas Vanka,
Sheng Chu,
Pegah Ghamari,
Yichen Wang,
Nick Pant,
Ishiang Shih,
Hong Guo,
Zetian Mi

Affiliations

Baowen Zhou: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Xianghua Kong: Department of Physics, McGill University
Srinivas Vanka: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Sheng Chu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Pegah Ghamari: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Yichen Wang: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Nick Pant: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Ishiang Shih: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Hong Guo: Department of Physics, McGill University
Zetian Mi: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06140-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Sunlight-harvesting materials require the clean integration of light-absorbing and catalytic components to be efficient. Here, authors link silicon photoelectrodes and molybdenum sulfide catalysts with defect-free gallium nitride nanowire to improve photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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