Silicon diatom frustules as nanostructured photoelectrodes

Soundarrajan Chandrasekaran; Martin J. Sweetman; Krishna Kant; William Skinner; Dusan Losic; Thomas Nann; Nicolas H. Voelcker

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Silicon diatom frustules as nanostructured photoelectrodes

Soundarrajan Chandrasekaran, Martin J. Sweetman, Krishna Kant, William Skinner, Dusan Losic, Thomas Nann, Nicolas H. Voelcker

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10441-10444
Number of pages	4
Journal	Chemical Communications
Volume	50
Issue number	72
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc04470c
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2014
Externally published	Yes

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