Frontiers of research in photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion
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Lewis, Nathan S.
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide an outlook for future research in semiconductor electrochemistry. A historical perspective is first presented to frame the recent scientific and technological progress that has been made in the field. The remainder of the article provides an overview of two selected research projects at the frontier of photoelectrochemistry. The first example discusses how exploitation of a deliberately nanostructured interface can provide useful enhancements to the kinetics of interfacial charge transfer events and can allow the use of catalysts without suffering concomitant efficiency losses. The second example discusses a model system that is useful for elucidating the interconnections between the chemical modification, electrical properties, and electrochemical behavior of photoelectrode surfaces.
Additional Information
The author is grateful to the National Science Foundation, grant CHE-9974562, and to the Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, for generously providing sustained support for photoelectrochemistry at Caltech. The author also acknowledges a very talented group of co-workers and colleagues, only some of whom are mentioned by name in this article, who have engaged in numerous collegial discussions and who have framed many of the important issues and problems in photoelectrochemistry, as they have evolved with time, that are described in this article.Additional details
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20230329-796813000.1
- CHE-9974562
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
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2023-03-30Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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