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Construction of an efficient hole migration pathway on hematite for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation
Ist Teil von
Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability, 2018, Vol.6 (46), p.23478-23485
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Hematite is a prototypical photoanode material that has recently piqued great interest, but fails to deliver the expected performance. The most pronounced disadvantage that plagues the promises held by hematite is its low charge separation efficiency and poor conductivity. In this study, we constructed an efficient hole migration pathway by integrating the co-catalyst (NiOOH) onto the homojunction structured Fe
2
O
3
coating on F-doped α-Fe
2
O
3
nanorods (NiOOH/Fe
2
O
3
/F-Fe
2
O
3
NRs). The resulting photoanode exhibited higher photocurrent density (3.4-fold higher than pristine Fe
2
O
3
) and lower onset potential (0.61
V
RHE
) than most reported hematite-based photoanodes. Detailed physical characterization and electrochemical experiments results reveal that the origin of such superior photoelectrochemical water oxidation performance is due to F-doping, built-in field formation and efficient hole extraction. This newly designed photoanode fulfils the requirements of low surface trapping sites, high conductivity, efficient charge separation and injection efficiency. These findings may open a new avenue of fabricating various efficient homojunction photoanodes for practical PEC water splitting.