1. Facile Synthesis of PdO.TiO2 Nanocomposite for Photoelectrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction
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Amna Altaf, Manzar Sohail, Ayman Nafady, Rashid G. Siddique, Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah, and Tayyaba Najam
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Chemistry (miscellaneous) ,Organic Chemistry ,Drug Discovery ,Molecular Medicine ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,photoelectrochemical water splitting ,sol–gel synthesis ,oxygen evolution reaction ,photocatalytic activity ,Analytical Chemistry - Abstract
The rapid depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution has motivated scientists to cultivate renewable and green energy sources. The hydrogen economy is an emerging replacement for fossil fuels, and photocatalytic water splitting is a suitable strategy to produce clean hydrogen fuel. Herein, the photocatalyst (PdO.TiO2) is introduced as an accelerated photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The catalyst showed significant improvement in the current density magnitude from 0.89 (dark) to 4.27 mA/cm2 (light) during OER at 0.5 V applied potential. The as-synthesized material exhibits a Tafel slope of 170 mVdec−1 and efficiency of 0.25% at 0.93 V. The overall outcomes associated with the photocatalytic activity of PdO.TiO2 demonstrated that the catalyst is highly efficient, thereby encouraging researchers to explore more related catalysts for promoting facile OER.
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- 2023
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