Increasing Charge Separation Property and Water Oxidation Activity of BiVO4 Photoanodes via a Postsynthetic Treatment

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 1337-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahsa Barzgar Vishlaghi ◽  
Abdullah Kahraman ◽  
Sarp Kaya
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Biaohong Huang ◽  
Ahmed M. Idris ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
Anum S. Malik ◽  
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Jafar H. Shah ◽  
Biaohong Huang ◽  
Ahmed M. Idris ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
Anum S. Malik ◽  
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Author(s):  
Yi-Hsuan Lai ◽  
Masaru Kato ◽  
Dirk Mersch ◽  
Erwin Reisner

This discussion describes a direct comparison of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation activity between a photosystem II (PSII)-functionalised photoanode and a synthetic nanocomposite photoanode. The semi-biological photoanode is composed of PSII from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus on a mesoporous indium tin oxide electrode (mesoITO|PSII). PSII embeds all of the required functionalities for light absorption, charge separation and water oxidation and ITO serves solely as the electron collector. The synthetic photoanode consists of a TiO2 and NiOx coated nanosheet-structured WO3 electrode (nanoWO3|TiO2|NiOx). The composite structure of the synthetic electrode allows mimicry of the functional key features in PSII: visible light is absorbed by WO3, TiO2 serves as a protection and charge separation layer and NiOx serves as the water oxidation electrocatalyst. MesoITO|PSII uses low energy red light, whereas nanoWO3|TiO2|NiOx requires high energy photons of blue-end visible and UV regions to oxidise water. The electrodes have a comparable onset potential at approximately 0.6 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). MesoITO|PSII reaches its saturation photocurrent at 0.84 V vs. RHE, whereas nanoWO3|TiO2|NiOx requires more than 1.34 V vs. RHE. This suggests that mesoITO|PSII suffers from fewer limitations from charge recombination and slow water oxidation catalysis than the synthetic electrode. MesoITO|PSII displays a higher ‘per active’ site activity, but is less photostable and displays a much lower photocurrent per geometrical surface area and incident photon to current conversion efficiency (IPCE) than nanoWO3|TiO2|NiOx.


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Zhijiao Wu ◽  
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Owing to their scientific and technological importance, the development of highly efficient photocatalytic water oxidation systems with rapid photogenerated charge separation and high surface catalytic activity has highly desirable for...


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Chao-Long Chen ◽  
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The stable 48-metal Ln36Co12 clusters show an effective water oxidation activity under weak acidic conditions because of the synergistic effect between lanthanide and transition metals in O–O bond formation.


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