Oxide heterointerfaces in assemblies for photoelectrochemical applications
A joint solar water splitting project with University of Hawaii

Project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, project 133944: Oxide heterointerfaces in assemblies for photoelectrochemical applications.

Host was the Thin Film Lab of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute: Thin Film Lab of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute.

Empa researcher Dr. Debejeet K. Bora speaking at the MRS 2014 Spring Meeting in San Francisco: Artificial Photosynthetic Heterostructure Electrode with Dual Functionalities: Water Splitting and Charge Storage.

Publications

A Nanocomposite Photoelectrode Made of 2.2 eV Band Gap Copper Tungstate (CuWO4) and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Solar-Assisted Water Splitting
2013
N. Gaillard, Y. Chang, A. DeAngelis, S. Higgins, and A. Braun
Between Photocatalysis and Photosynthesis: Synchrotron spectroscopy methods on molecules and materials for solar hydrogen generation
2013
D.K. Bora, Y. Hu, S. Thiess, S. Erat, X. Feng, S. Mukherjee, G. Fortunato, N. Gaillard, R. Toth, K. Gajda-Schrantz, W. Drube, M. Graetzel, J. Guo, J. Zhu, E.C .Constable, D.D. Sarma, H. Wang, A. Braun
Copper Tungstate (CuWO4)-Based Materials for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production
2012
N. Gaillard, Y. Chang, A. Braun, A. DeAngelis
Effect of thermal treatment on the crystallographic, surface energetics and photoelectrochemical properties of reactively co-sputtered copper tungstate (CuWO4) for water splitting
2011
Y. Chang, A. Braun, A. Deangelis, J. Kaneshiro and N. Gaillard