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RSC Advances

Turning commercial transition-metal oxides into efficient electrocatalysts via facile hydrogen treatment†

Xiao Hua Yang,‡a   Ling Cheng,‡a   Yu Hou,a   Bo Zhang,ab   Long Wua  and  Hua Gui Yang*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
E-mail: hgyang@ecust.edu.cn
Fax: +86-21-64252127

b Department of Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China

c Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia

Abstract

The electrocatalytic behavior of the Fe2O3, In2O3 and SnO2 counter electrodes prepared in H2 is enhanced significantly. This work demonstrated that hydrogen-treatment is a facile and universal method for the preparation of efficient electrocatalysts in dye-sensitized solar cells.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA46109B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Oct 2013
Accepted
17 Feb 2014
First published
17 Feb 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 12534-12537

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Turning commercial transition-metal oxides into efficient electrocatalysts via facile hydrogen treatment

X. H. Yang, L. Cheng, Y. Hou, B. Zhang, L. Wu and H. G. Yang, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 12534 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA46109B

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