Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 40, Pages 21478-21485Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta07208b
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Funding
- National Key Research Program of China [2017YFA0204800, 2016YFA0202403]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21603136, 61674098]
- National Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2017JM2007]
- Innovative Research Team [IRT_14R33]
- 111 Project [B14041]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [GK201602007, GK261001009]
- Chinese National 1000-Talent-Plan program
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The water oxidation reaction (OER) is the key process used for the generation of H-2, and new catalyst systems are needed to achieve considerable efficiency in the OER. In the present work, beta-FeOOH samples, both bare and doped with earth-abundant elements (Ni and Co), were synthesized and confirmed to be promising semiconductors for solar-driven water oxidation. This is the first time that the direct use of beta-FeOOH samples has been reported in a water splitting system, in which beta-FeOOH has always been used as a co-catalyst. From a combination of DFT calculations and experimental results, (a) beta-FeOOH can play two roles, namely, carrier generation and improving the kinetics of water oxidation, owing to the abundance of surface OH groups; (b) doping with Ni or Co can improve the photocatalytic activity of beta-FeOOH, and this enhancement benefits from the separation of photogenerated carriers; (c) samples doped with Ni or Co give better performance in electrocatalytic water oxidation than bare beta-FeOOH. After being doped with these earth-abundant elements, beta-FeOOH delivered saturated photocurrent densities of 4.71 (for Co) and 2.55 (for Ni) mA cm(-2), which are higher than the value of 0.69 mA cm(-2) recorded for bare b-FeOOH at a low external bias of 1.0 V versus RHE.
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