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An adaptive junction

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The energetic and kinetic behaviours of water-oxidation catalysts deposited on semiconductor electrodes are probed in situ, elucidating the junction formed between them, and transforming the design principles of the catalysts.

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Figure 1: A schematic of the adaptive semiconductor/electrocatalyst junction.

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  1. Thomas W. Hamann is in the Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA,

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Hamann, T. An adaptive junction. Nature Mater 13, 3–4 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3843

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