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Latest Advances on the Columnar Nanostructure for Solar Water Splitting

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In this chapter, we briefly review a recent progress in chemical synthesis used to prepare promising and active material to be applied as photoanode in a PEC cell. A variety of morphology, crystal alignment, and bulk recombination was discussed during the light-induced water oxidation reaction evaluation. The major drawback related to the hole diffusion through the solid/liquid interface was addressed in terms of high annealing temperature combined with dopant addition. In this chapter, a critical view and depth understanding of the role of synergistic effect of these two parameters were discussed focusing on the molecular oxygen evolution mechanism from sunlight-driven water oxidation reaction.

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  1. Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC—UFABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

    Flavio L Souza

  2. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Edson R Leite

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    Edson R Leite

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Souza, F.L., Leite, E.R. (2018). Latest Advances on the Columnar Nanostructure for Solar Water Splitting. In: Souza, F., Leite, E. (eds) Nanoenergy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62800-4_4

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