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NANOSCALE
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 3474-3481Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr08604c
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- NRF of Korea - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2013R1A2A1A09014038]
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4 WO3/BiVO4 is one of the attractive Type II heterojunctions for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting due to its well-matched band edge positions and visible light harvesting abilities. However, two light absorption components generally suffer from poor charge collection and cannot be efficiently utilized because of non-ideal interfaces. Herein, a triple-deck three-dimensional (3D) architecture was designed through a one-step shaping process with an additional stress relaxation WO3 underlayer. The final photoanodes showed a promising photocurrent density of 5.1 mA cm(-2) at 1.23 V vs. RHE under AM 1.5G illumination. Using the uniformly distributed oxygen evolution co-catalyst (OEC) layer as the outer most shell of the WO3/BiVO4/OEC triple-deck 3D structure with a dense WO3 underlayer, the water splitting efficiency was improved dramatically by facilitating the charge transfer process at the electrode/electrolyte interface.
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