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NANOSCALE
Volume 12, Issue 13, Pages 7159-7173Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9nr10908k
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFE0110700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1632121, 11804055, 51861135105, 61874034]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [18ZR1405000]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M631997]
- Fudan University Exchange Program Scholarship for Doctoral Students
- Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI-NSF China Partnership Program [SFI 17/NSFC/5279 NITRALD]
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As a well-known semiconductor that can catalyse the oxygen evolution reaction, TiO2 has been extensively investigated for its solar photoelectrochemical water properties. Unmodified TiO2 shows some issues, particularly with respect to its photoelectrochemical performance. In this paper, we present a strategy for the controlled deposition of controlled amounts of GaOxNy cocatalysts on TiO2 1D nanowires (TiO2@GaOxNy core-shell) using atomic layer deposition. We show that this modification significantly enhances the photoelectrochemical performance compared to pure TiO2 NW photoanodes. For our most active TiO2@GaOxNy core-shell nanowires with a GaOxNy thickness of 20 nm, a photocurrent density up to 1.10 mA cm(-2) (at 1.23 V vs. RHE) under AM 1.5 G irradiation (100 mW cm(-2)) has been achieved, which is 14 times higher than that of unmodified TiO2 NWs. Furthermore, the band gap matching with TiO2 enhances the absorption of visible light over unmodified TiO2 and the facile oxygen vacancy formation after the deposition of GaOxNy also provides active sites for water activation. Density functional theory studies of model systems of GaOxNy-modified TiO2 confirm the band gap reduction, high reducibility and ability to activate water. The highly efficient and stable systems of TiO2@GaOxNy core-shell nanowires with ALD deposited GaOxNy demonstrate a good strategy for the fabrication of core-shell structures that enhance the photoelectrochemical performance of readily available photoanodes.
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