Approaching the commercial threshold of solar water splitting toward hydrogen by III-nitrides nanowires
Baowen ZHOU1(), Shuhui SUN2()
1. Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, Shanghai 200240, China 2. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)-Center Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, Quebec J3X 1P7, Canada
. [J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2024, 18(1): 122-124.
Baowen ZHOU, Shuhui SUN. Approaching the commercial threshold of solar water splitting toward hydrogen by III-nitrides nanowires. Front. Energy, 2024, 18(1): 122-124.
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