{"id":26716,"date":"2016-06-09T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:55","slug":"tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion","title":{"rendered":"Tungsten trioxide nanostructures for solar energy conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Low-cost, low-dimensional nanoarchitectures provide optimal structures for charge collection in large-scale solar energy harvesting and conversion applications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><\/p>\n<p>Photoelectrochemical water splitting, where irradiation of a photoelectrode in water produces hydrogen and oxygen, can be used for solar energy harvesting and conversion.<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6481-tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion#B1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> The process potentially offers a clean, sustainable, and large-scale energy resource. Photoanodes used in the photoelectrochemical process are generally made from Earth-abundant oxide semiconductors, such as titanium dioxide, tungsten trioxide, and iron (III) oxide.<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6481-tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion#B2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a> Among these metal oxide semiconductors, tungsten trioxide is regarded as one of the best candidates because of its visible light-driven photocatalytic activity, its good charge transport properties, and its relative stability in aqueous electrolytes. However, the light absorption and charge collection efficiency of tungsten trioxide\u2014especially within a bulk structure\u2014still needs to be improved to realize practical photoelectrochemical applications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6481-tungsten-trioxide-nanostructures-for-solar-energy-conversion\">http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6481-tungsten-trioxide-nanostructur...conversion<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost, low-dimensional nanoarchitectures provide optimal structures for charge collection in large-scale solar energy harvesting and conversion applications. Photoelectrochemical water splitting, where irradiation of a photoelectrode in water produces hydrogen and oxygen, can be used for solar energy harvesting and conversion.1 The process potentially offers a clean, sustainable, and large-scale energy resource. Photoanodes used in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61566,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716\/revisions\/61566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}