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With the development of photoelectrochemistry, the size and morphologies of photoelectrode materials have received more and more attention. The introduction of nanoscale syntheses of photoelectrochemical materials brings both advantages and disadvantages for the performance of photoelectrodes. In this chapter, we briefly introduce the morphologies of nanostructured materials as well as methods for their synthesis. Then the performance of some of these nanostructured photoelectrodes is compared with their bulk counterpart and other nanostructures of the same material.

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Thorne, J.E., He, Y., Wang, D. (2016). Nanostructured Materials. In: Giménez, S., Bisquert, J. (eds) Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuel Production. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29641-8_11

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