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Published: Oct 21, 2019
Vol/Issue: 12(1)
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Camilo A. Mesa

Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12006 Castelló, Spain.

CNRS, Université de Rennes, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, Rennes, France.; CNRS, Université de Rennes, DYNACOM (Dynamical Control of Materials Laboratory) - IRL2015, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Centre for Plastic Electronics, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Camilo A. Mesa, Laia Francàs, Ke R. Yang, et al. (2019). Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT. Nature Chemistry, 12(1), 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0347-1

Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT

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