@article { ISI:000371105800005,
	title = {Glucose-derived porous carbon-coated silicon nanowires as efficient electrodes for aqueous micro-supercapacitors},
	journal = {ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces},
	volume = {8},
	number = {7},
	year = {2016},
	month = {FEB},
	pages = {4298-4302},
	publisher = {AMER CHEMICAL SOC},
	address = {1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA},
	abstract = {<p>In this study, we report on carbon coating of vertically aligned silicon nanowire (SiNWs) arrays via a simple hydrothermal process using glucose as carbon precursor. Using this process, a thin carbon layer is uniformly deposited on the SiNWs. Under optimized conditions, the coated SiNWs electrode showed better electrochemical energy storage capacity as well as exceptional stability in aqueous system as compared to uncoated SiNWs. The as-measured capacitance reached 25.64 mF/cm(2) with a good stability up to 25000 charging/discharging cycles in 1 M Na2SO4 aqueous solution.</p>},
	keywords = {carbon coating, glucose precursor, hydrothermal, microsupercapacitors, silicon nanowires},
	issn = {1944-8244},
	doi = {10.1021/acsami.5b11240},
	author = {Devarapalli, Rami Reddy and Szunerits, Sabine and Coffinier, Yannick and Shelke, Manjusha V. and Boukherroub, Rabah}
}
@article {45701,
	title = {Co-catalytic metal oxide nanoparticles decorated silicon/hematite core shell nanowire arrays as efficient photo electrodes for water splitting},
	journal = {ChemistrySelect},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2017},
	month = {MAR },
	pages = {2544-2551},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>By looking global energy demands, development of highly efficient stable semiconductor photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is highly desirable. Herein, we have fabricated co-catalytic nanoparticles decorated Silicon nanowire (SiNWs)/Hematite(Fe2O3) core sell structures as photo anodes and studied the PEC water oxidation properties. As, Fe2O3 possess weak oxidation kinetics, decoration of NiO and Co3O4 nanoparticles on SiNW/Fe2O3 by hydrothermal method, which acts as co-catalysts to improves the water oxidation reactions. It was found that decoration of Co3O4 nanoparticles enhances the photocurrent up to 2.6 times, whereas for NiO nanoparticles improvement is of 1.5 times when compared to the undecorated electrodes. Along with enhancement of photocurrents, it also shows shift of onset potentials. The effect of the co-catalytic nanoparticles on the enhancement of photocurrent and charge transfer resistance at the interface of electrode-electrolyte have been studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Further, flat band potentials of the photo electrodes have been measured by using Mott-schottky analysis.</p>},
	keywords = {Co-catalysts, photo anodes, Photoelectrochemical cell, silicon nanowires, water splitting},
	issn = {2365-6549},
	doi = {10.1002/slct.201700083},
	author = {Devarapalli, Rami Reddy and Kamaja, Chaitanya Krishna and Shelke, Manjusha V.}
}
