Abstract
The energy crisis of the early 1970s stimulated numerous \ninvestigations of semiconductor/liquid junctions for the conversion and storage of solar energy. Although similar in concept to solid-state photovoltaic devices, semiconductor /liquid junctions offered the potential for inexpensive, chemically based energy-conversion devices, with the accompanying potential to effect the direct conversion of light into chemical fuels.
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SemiconductorSeparation (statistics)Charge (physics)Materials scienceChemical physicsChemistryNanotechnologyOptoelectronicsPhysicsComputer scienceQuantum mechanics
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- 1990
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- article
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- 23
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- 6
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- 176-183
- Citations
- 80
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Nathan S. Lewis
(1990).
Mechanistic studies of light-induced charge separation at semiconductor/liquid interfaces.
Accounts of Chemical Research
, 23
(6)
, 176-183.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ar00174a002
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- DOI
- 10.1021/ar00174a002