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Surface Modifications and Growth of Titanium Dioxide for Photo-Electrochemical Water Splitting pp 93–130Cite as

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The experiments reported in this thesis cover two main areas of investigation: 1. Investigation of plasmonic water splitting by gold nanoparticles on TiO2 (Chap. 5), and analysis of the electrochemistry of rutile single crystals (Chap. 6). 2. Growth of TiO2 thin films by pulsed laser deposition on amorphous substrates (Chap. 7) and single crystal substrates (Chap. 8) as the basis of further studies of the surface science of TiO2

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Alexander, J.C. (2016). Experimental Methods. In: Surface Modifications and Growth of Titanium Dioxide for Photo-Electrochemical Water Splitting. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34229-0_4

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