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Highly efficient hamburger-like nanostructure of a triadic Ag/Co3O4/BiVO4 photoanode for enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation
- Source :
- RSC Advances. 10:45067-45075
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2020.
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Abstract
- The combination of a semiconductor heterojunction and oxygen evolution cocatalyst (OEC) is an important strategy to improve photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation. Herein, a novel hamburger-like nanostructure of a triadic photoanode composed of BiVO4 nanobulks, Co3O4 nanosheets and Ag nanoparticles (NPs), that is, Ag/Co3O4/BiVO4, was designed. In our study, an interlaced 2D ultrathin p-type Co3O4 OEC layer was introduced onto n-type BiVO4 to form a p–n Co3O4/BiVO4 heterojunction with an internal electric field (IEF) in order to facilitate charge transport. Then the modification with Ag NPs can significantly facilitate the separation and transport of photogenerated carriers through the surface plasma resonance (SPR) effect, inhibiting the electron–hole recombination. The resulting Ag/Co3O4/BiVO4 photoanodes exhibit largely enhanced PEC water oxidation performance: the photocurrent density of the ternary photoanode reaches up to 1.84 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE, which is 4.60 times higher than that of the pristine BiVO4 photoanode. The IPCE value is 2.83 times higher than that of the pristine BiVO4 at 400 nm and the onset potential has a significant cathodic shift of 550 mV for the ternary well-constructed photoanode.
- Subjects :
- Photocurrent
Materials science
Nanostructure
business.industry
General Chemical Engineering
Oxygen evolution
Heterojunction
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Semiconductor
Chemical engineering
Electric field
0210 nano-technology
business
Ternary operation
Layer (electronics)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20462069
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- RSC Advances
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0d8b73b2d6733616bf04449df7402142
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra08102g