Silicon diatom frustules as nanostructured photoelectrodes
Chemical Communications2014Vol. 50(72), pp. 10441–10441
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Soundarrajan Chandrasekaran, Martin J. Sweetman, Krishna Kant, William Skinner, Dušan Lošić, Thomas Nann, Nicolas H. Voelcker
Abstract
In the quest for solutions to meeting future energy demands, solar fuels play an important role. A particularly promising example is photocatalysis since even incremental improvements in performance in this process are bound to translate into significant cost benefits. Here, we report that semiconducting and high surface area 3D silicon replicas prepared from abundantly available diatom fossils sustain photocurrents and enable solar energy conversion.
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