Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 358, Issue -, Pages 658-665Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.10.066
Keywords
BiVO4; N-doped carbon; Plasmonic photoanode; Photoelectrochemical water splitting
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21671083, 21401082, 21522603]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2017M621644, 2018T110454]
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilizations [RERU2018011]
- Jiangsu Provincial Six Talent Peaks [XCL-019]
- Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation [BK20170526]
- Youth Backbone Teacher Training Engineering of Jiangsu University
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Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a promising method for converting solar energy into hydrogen fuel, but how to further improve the efficiency of solar energy conversion is still a large challenge. Here, it is the first time to decorate BiVO4 with Ag and N-doped carbon (BiVO4-C/N-Ag) for efficient solar-to-chemical energy conversion, and we in-depth demonstrated the superiorly of BiVO4-C/N-Ag heterostructure in PEC water splitting system. Polydopamine (PDA) as medium material realized the in-situ anchor of both Ag and N-doped carbon on BiVO4, which significantly boosted the charge injection efficiency (eta(inj)) and charge separation efficiency (eta(sep)) to 88.59% and 29.75% (1.23 V vs. RHE), respectively. The effective function of Ag and N-doped carbon exhibited an obvious influence on the enhancement of PEC performance. The photocurrent density of BiVO4-C/N-Ag increased up to 2.42 mA/cm(2) at 1.23 V vs. RHE, and 7.5-fold IPCE value (30%, 400 nm, 1.23 V vs. RHE) over bare BiVO4 has been achieved, indicating the successful configuration of a promising photoanode in the field of PEC water splitting.
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