Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 93, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106852
Keywords
Ferroelectric polarization; BiFeO3; Nanofiber; Elemental substitution; Piezo-photocatalytic
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Funding
- Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [62035006]
- Guang-dong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2020A1515111164]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021T140271, 2021M701412]
- National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China [62075041, 21976100, 61975068, 62005101, 62011530459]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [11619103]
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By modifying BiFeO3 nanofibers with co-doping of Pr ions and Mn ions, better ferroelectric properties and lower leakage current were achieved, resulting in superior piezo-photocatalytic performance and optimized PEC performance with effective tunability of photocurrent and onset potential.
Developing lead-free ferroelectrics BiFeO3 with polarized electric field for tuning charge-transport properties in piezo-photocatalytic and ferm-photoelectrochemical (PEC) is highly desired but also challenging, especially defects such as impurity phases and oxygen vacancies lead to the weak polarization and large leakage current of BiFeO3. Here, we used a facile electmspinning strategy to modify BiFeO3 nanofibers by A-site Pr ion and B-site Mn ion co-doping. In this way, the concentrations of oxygen vacancies and valence of Fe(3+ )to Fe2+ were significantly inhibited, and the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) of the rhombohedral (R) to tetragonal (T) phase was obtained, resulting in better ferroelectric performances and lower leakage current. Thus, BiPrFeMnO3 nanofibers was able to generate a large piezoelectric potential through magnetic stirring (piezoelectric effect) and light irradiation (photocatalytic effect), resulting in superior piezo-photocatalytic performance with a degradation rate of 0.1352 min(-1) for rhodamine B, which was 8.29, 4.3 and 4.2 times higher than that of BiFeO3, BiPrFeO3 and BiFeMnO3, respectively. In addition, optimized PEC performance by controlling the polarization state was observed in BiPrFeMnO3. The photocurrent could be effectively tuned by more than 16 times (8.2 -131.2 mu A.cm(-2) at 0 V vs Ag/AgCl) under irradiation of simulated sunlight by tuning the poling voltage between + 4 and - 4 V. Meanwhile, the onset potential switched from - 0.16 to - 0.18 V, which was favorable for the PEC reactions. Our present work gives a clear understanding of the role of ferroelectric polarization and solar energy conversion and provides a way to develop highly efficient piezo-/ferroelectric nanomaterials.
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