Room-temperature photodeposition of conformal transition metal based cocatalysts on BiVO4 for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting  

作　　者：Lu Wang Tao Zhang Jinzhan Su Liejin Guo 

机构地区：[1]International Research Center for Renewable Energy,State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering,School of Energy&Power Engineering,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an,710049,China

出　　处：《Nano Research》2020年第1期231-237,共7页纳米研究（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Basic Science Center Program for Ordered Energy Conversion of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51888103);the China National Key Research and Development Plan Project(No.2018YFB1502000);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(No.2019JM-400).

摘　　要：Photoelectrochemical(PEC)water splitting using semiconductors offers a promising way to convert renewable solar energy to clean hydrogen fuels.However,due to the sluggish reaction kinetics of water oxidation,significant charge recombination occurred at the photoanode/electrolyte interface and cause decrease of its PEC performance.To reduce the surface recombination,we deposit different transition metal complexes on BiVO4 nanocone arrays by a versatile light driven in-situ two electrode photodeposition approach without applied bias.Conformal cobalt phosphate“Co-Pi”,nickel borate“Ni-Bi”and manganese phosphate“Mn-Pi”complexes were deposited on BiVO4 nanocone arrays to form core-shell structure photoanode,all of which lead to enhanced photoelectrochemical performance.The photocurrent of the Co-Pi/BiVO4 photoanode under front-side illumination for 5 min is increased by 4 folds comparing to that of bare BiVO4 photoanode at 0.6 V vs.RHE,reaching a hole transfer efficiency as high as 94.5%at 1.23 V vs.RHE.The proposed photodeposition strategy is simple and efficient,and can be extended to deposite cocatalyst on other semiconductors with a valence band edge located at a potential more positive than the oxidation potential of transition metal ion in the cocatalyst.

关 键 词：bismuth vanadate photoelectrochemcial water splitting conformal photodeposition COCATALYST 

分 类 号：O64[理学—物理化学]