Bao Xiao-Qing, Ferreira Ricardo, Paz Elvira, Leitao Diana C, Silva Ana, Cardoso Susana, Freitas Paulo P, Liu Lifeng
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), 4715-330 Braga, Portugal.
Nanoscale. 2014 Feb 21;6(4):2097-101. doi: 10.1039/c3nr05360a. Epub 2014 Jan 9.
Well-ordered tilted silicon nanobelt arrays have been fabricated over a large area (≥2.5 cm(2)) by metal assisted chemical etching of pre-patterned silicon, which demonstrated markedly enhanced solar hydrogen evolution performance, compared with planar silicon of the same type and previously reported silicon nanowires prepared in a similar way.