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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 164-169Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2sc20881d
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- Centre of Artificial Photosynthesis
- MOE Tier 1
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In this paper, we report a novel strategy for surface treatment of hematite nanorods for efficient photo-driven water oxidation. This is the first report describing the growth of Sn treated hematite from alpha-FeOOH nanorod arrays in one step without substantially altering morphologies. With this treatment the photocurrent density increased from 1.24 for pristine hematite nanorods to 2.25 mA cm(-2) at 1.23 V vs. RHE (i.e. 81% improvement). The increase in photocurrent density was also accompanied by improved incident-photon-to-current efficiencies and oxygen evolution. The photocurrent improvement is mainly attributed to a reduced electron-hole recombination at the hematite-electrolyte interface through the formation of FexSn1-xO4 layer at the hematite nanorod surface as shown by XPS, HRTEM, EDAX line scan analyses and PEC measurements.
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