Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 12, Pages 10971-10978Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02009
Keywords
Hole transfer channel; Ferrihydrite; Water splitting; Photoanode; alpha-Fe2O3
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51572106, 21773086, 21872063]
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A high-efficient oxygen evolution cocatalyst decorated on alpha-Fe2O3 has been considered as one of the most prospective approaches to accelerate the charge transport at the interface between photoanode and electrolyte. However, efficient charge transport from the semiconductor to the surface of the cocatalyst is still a challenge in fabricating semiconductor electrodes integrated with cocatalysts. Here, we elaborately introduce ferrihydrite (Fh) as a hole transfer channel between Ti doped alpha-Fe2O3 (Ti-Fe2O3) and cobalt phosphate (CoPi), which exhibits a superior photocurrent density of 3.0 mA/cm(2) at 1.23 V-RHE and 100 mV negative shift of the onset potential in contrast to CoPi/Ti-Fe2O3. The outstanding photoelectrochemistry performance is not only ascribed to the accelerated charge transfer from Ti-Fe2O3 to the surface of CoPi, but also beneficial from the fluent injection of photogenerated holes into the electrolyte, when Fh is introduced between Ti-Fe2O3 and CoPi. This work emphasizes the importance of introducing a hole transfer channel between semiconductor and cocatalyst in constructing outstanding photoanodes.
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