CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
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2025
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IF 3.1
Ziqi Zhong,Borui Du,Guowu Zhan,Jingran Xiao
Herein, the 3D printing technology is harnessed as a new and flexible strategy to fabricate a structural-parameter adjustable 3D-structured Ti-Fe 2 O 3 photoanode. The Ti alloy was discovered to be practicable during the synthesis of Ti-Fe 2 O 3 and enlisted as a substrate material for crafting a conical-array patterned Ti-Fe 2 O 3 photoanode. The conical array fashions an angle between the incident light (longitudinal side) and the photogenerated charge transport (transverse side), along with a considerably augmented light-receiving area. Significantly, the charge separation efficiency progressively escalates as the cone height augments. This undertaking accentuates the importance of modulating the parameter of a 3D-structured Fe 2 O 3 photoanode.
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材料科学
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2023
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IF 5.9
Songbo Wang,Yidan Wang,Jia Li,Shuang Guo,Chengzhen Meng,Lun Pan,Ji-Jun Zou,Yawei Shi,Lei Zhang,Zhen Yin,Na Tang
In order to address the current energy and environmental challenges, photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has been widely studied, and the key point about the efficient PEC process is how to develop highly active photoanode catalysts. In this article, we report a two-step hydrothermal and electrodeposition approach to prepare a cobalt (oxy)hydroxide (CoOOH)-modified Ti-Fe2O3-In2O3 electrode by synergy of electron modulation and a heterojunction structure for promoting PEC water splitting. Under a bias of 1.23 V vs RHE, the optimized Ti-Fe2O3-In2O3/CoOOH photoanode demonstrated remarkable photocurrent density and hydrogen evolution rate as high as 1.33 mA cm–2 and 22.8 μmol cm–2 h–1, which was 5.11-fold and 5.14-fold that of bare α-Fe2O3, respectively. Characterization results indicate that Ti-doping will alter the electronic structure and improve the charge carrier density, whereas the construction of a heterojunction can realize the spatial separation of charge carriers. Meanwhile, the outer CoOOH ultrathin layer can provide a large amount of oxygen evolution reaction sites and promote the surface reaction. This work suggests that the PEC performance of Fe2O3-based photoanodes can be improved effectively by the synergy of electronic modulation and heterojunction construction.
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能源与环境科学
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材料科学
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光化学
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2019
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IF 4.175
Qiannan Wu,Qijing Bu,Shuo Li,Yanhong Lin,Xiaoxin Zou,Dejun Wang,Tengfeng Xie
Inevitable drawbacks on α-Fe 2 O 3 photoanodes , such as poor conductivity, short hole diffusion length , high electron-hole recombination rate, limit their photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance for water oxidation . The construction of heterojunction is an effective approach to improve the PEC performance of photoanodes. Herein, we report the design of the WO 3 /Ti–Fe 2 O 3 heterojunction photoanodes, which are synthesized by two simple hydrothermal method . The optimized WO 3 /Ti–Fe 2 O 3 photoanode shows remarkably improved photocurrent of 2.15 mA/cm 2 at 1.23 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) without additional cocatalyst , which is higher than that of previous literatures. The improvement benefits from reduced charge transfer resistance in the bulk of Ti–Fe 2 O 3 photoanode and improved charge separation efficiency, which can been further confirmed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), the transient photovoltage (TPV) and the work function (WF) measurement. The present work also provide new opportunities in developing high performance photoanodes for PEC water splitting .
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材料科学
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物理化学
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能源科学
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半导体光电化学
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纳米材料
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2024
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IF 8.1
Xiaoyu Wang,Dejun Wang,Yanhong Lin,Tengfeng Xie
To enhance the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance of the zinc-air battery (ZAB), reduce charging voltage, and improve energy utilization efficiency, a sunlight-assisted strategy has been implemented. The photo-assisted rechargeable ZAB was proposed, featuring Ti–Fe 2 O 3 decorated with Co 0 · 8 Cu 0.2 -ZIF as the air electrode. Upon illumination, valence band holes were generated in Ti–Fe 2 O 3 , oxidizing Co 2+ in Co 0 · .8 Cu 0.2 -ZIF to Co 3+ /Co 4+ , enhancing OER performance, reducing the charging voltage from 2 V to 1.3 V and effectively narrowing the charging-discharging voltage gap from approximately 1.15 V–0.45 V. The Ti–Fe 2 O 3 /Co 0 · 8 Cu 0.2 -ZIF structure maintains a round-trip efficiency of 65.3% after 300 cycles. This result demonstrates the successful integration of photoelectrochemical principles with ZAB technology, showcasing its efficacy in solar energy storage and light energy conversion.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2018
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IF 8.097
Zhe Xu,Haoyu Wang,Yunzhou Wen,Wenchao Li,Chuyu Sun,Yuting He,Zhan Shi,Lang Pei,Yongda Chen,Shicheng Yan,Zhigang Zou
For photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, the interface interactions among semiconductors, electrocatalysts, and electrolytes affect the charge separation and catalysis in turn. Here, through the changing of the bath temperature, Co-based oxygen evolution catalysts (OEC) with different crystallinities were electrochemically deposited on Ti-doped Fe2O3 (Ti–Fe2O3) photoanodes. We found: (1) the OEC with low crystallinity is highly ion-permeable, decreasing the interactions between OEC and photoanode due to the intimate interaction between semiconductor and electrolyte; (2) the OEC with high crystallinity is nearly ion-impermeable, is beneficial to form a constant buried junction with semiconductor, and exhibits the low OEC catalytic activity; and (3) the OEC with moderate crystallinity is partially electrolyte-screened, thus contributing to the formation of ideal band bending underneath surface of semiconductor for charge separation and the highly electrocatalytic activity of OEC for lowering over-potentials of water oxidation. Our results demonstrate that to balance the water oxidation activity of OEC and OEC–semiconductor interface energetics is crucial for highly efficient solar energy conversion; in particular, the energy transducer is a semiconductor with a shallow or moderate valence-band level.
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电化学
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ChemSusChem
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2018
·Vol. 11
·期 19
·3486-3494
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IF 7.411
Qijing Bu,Shuo Li,Qiannan Wu,Lingling Bi,Yanhong Lin,Dejun Wang,Xiaoxin Zou,Tengfeng Xie
Semiconductor electrodes integrated with cocatalysts are key components of photoelectrochemistry (PEC)-based solar-energy conversion. However, efforts to optimize the PEC device have been limited by an inadequate understanding of the interface interactions between the semiconductor–cocatalyst (sem|cat) and cocatalyst–electrolyte (cat|ele) interface. In our work, we used ferrihydrite (Fh)-modified Ti–Fe 2 O 3 as a model to explore the transfer process of photogenerated charge carriers between the Ti–Fe 2 O 3 –Fh (Ti–Fe 2 O 3 |Fh) interface and Fh-electrolyte (Fh|ele) interface. The results demonstrate that the biphasic structure (Fh/Ti–Fe 2 O 3 ) possesses the advantage that the minority hole transfer from Ti–Fe 2 O 3 to Fh is driven by the interfacial electric field at the Ti–Fe 2 O 3 |Fh interface; meanwhile, the holes reached at the surface of Fh can rapidly inject into the electrolyte across the Fh|ele interface. As a benefit from the improved charge transfer at the Ti–Fe 2 O 3 |Fh and Fh|ele interface, the photocurrent density obtained by Fh/Ti–Fe 2 O 3 can reach 2.32 mA cm −2 at 1.23 V versus RHE, which is three times higher than that of Ti–Fe 2 O 3 . Graphical Water splitting : The excellent performance of ferrihydrite (Fh)/Ti–Fe 2 O 3 is attributed to the unhindered charge transfer at the Ti–Fe 2 O 3 |Fh and Fh|electrolyte interfaces. As a benefit from this improved charge transfer, the photocurrent density obtained by Fh/Ti–Fe 2 O 3 can reach 2.32 mA cm −2 at 1.23 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode, which is three times higher than that of Ti–Fe 2 O 3 .
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半导体物理
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2016
·Vol. 4
·期 42
·16661-16669
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IF 8.262
Shuo Li,Qidong Zhao,Dedong Meng,Dejun Wang,Tengfeng Xie
Cocatalysts are one essential factor for promoting the photoelectrochemical water oxidation efficiency of photoanodes, but the influence of interface charge transfer between the semiconductor and cocatalyst has been rarely addressed. Due to their poor charge conductivity, the application of many metal oxides as cocatalysts has been limited. In this work, using photoanode Ti/Fe2O3 and cocatalyst CoOx as a model system, we elaborately design a charge transfer channel of metal Co between the photoanode and cocatalyst. Such a ternary nanostructure has proved to possess several advantageous features, including effective charge separation efficiency, long lifetime of photogenerated holes, and fast charge transport from the photoanode to the surface of the cocatalyst. Benefiting from these desirable nanostructures, the photoanode, containing a charge transfer channel of metal Co, exhibited a remarkable photoelectrochemical performance for water oxidation, with an almost 7-fold enhancement in the photocurrent density at 1.23 V vs. RHE under visible light illumination and about a 0.15 V water oxidation onset potential negative shift compared to the Ti/Fe2O3 photoanode. These findings demonstrate that the successful construction of a metallic charge transfer channel between the photoanode and cocatalyst should be employed as a general strategy for photoconversion applications.
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