Effects of yttrium, ytterbium with tungsten co-doping on the light absorption and charge transport properties of bismuth vanadate photoanodes to achieve superior photoelectrochemical water splitting

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1496-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Prasad ◽  
Jyoti Prakash ◽  
Arunachala M. Kannan

Effective water splitting by a photoelectrochemical cell using a BiVO4 photoanode is limited by the light absorption and charge transport properties.

Author(s):  
Umesh Prasad ◽  
James Luke Young ◽  
Justin C. Johnson ◽  
Deborah McGott ◽  
Hengfei Gu ◽  
...  

Photoanodes containing a WO3/BiVO4 heterojunction have demonstrated promising photoelectrochemical water splitting performance, but the ability to effectively passivate the WO3/BiVO4 interface has limited charge transport and collection. Here, the WO3/BiVO4...


Author(s):  
Xin Zou ◽  
Xueyang Han ◽  
Chengxiong Wang ◽  
Yunkun Zhao ◽  
Chun Du ◽  
...  

Ta3N5 is regarded as a promising candidate material with adequate visible light absorption and band structure for photoelectrochemical water splitting. However, the performance of Ta3N5 is severely limited by the...


Author(s):  
Samantha Prabath Ratnayake ◽  
Jiawen Ren ◽  
Joel van Embden ◽  
Chris F. McConville ◽  
Enrico Della Gaspera

Bismuth vanadate coatings are fabricated via a sequential solution-based method and used as photoanodes for water oxidation achieving exceptional performances.


Author(s):  
Abhinav Bhanawat ◽  
Keyong Zhu ◽  
Laurent Pilon

This paper aims to systematically investigate the effect of gas bubbles formation on the performance of a horizontal photoelectrode exposed to normally incident light during photoelectrochemical water splitting. The presence...


2018 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robabeh Bashiri ◽  
Norani Muti Mohamed ◽  
Nur Amirah Suhaimi ◽  
Muhammad Umair Shahid ◽  
Chong Fai Kait ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 4062-4072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunjiang Xu ◽  
Wanjun Sun ◽  
Yinjuan Dong ◽  
Congzhao Dong ◽  
Qiyu Hu ◽  
...  

Monoclinic bismuth vanadate (BiVO4), as a rising star in light-catching materials, has been researched in many fields, such as photoelectrochemical water splitting.


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