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NANO ENERGY
Volume 42, Issue -, Pages 1-7Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.10.028
Keywords
Water splitting; NiFe catalysts; Inverse opal structures; Photovoltaic-electrolyzer; Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency
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- Korean Government Ministry of Science and ICT [NRF-2014M1A8A1049303]
- Korea Institute Energy Research [B7-2421]
- Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) - Korean Government Ministry of Knowledge Economy [20163010012230]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government Ministry of Science and ICT [2017R1A2B4008736]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017R1A2B4008736] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Photovoltaic cell-electrolyzer combined systems have recently been considered a most promising route to commercialization of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting although efficiency, stability, and cost remain major challenges. Herein, we develop a highly efficient and low-cost, bifunctional NiFe electrocatalyst that uses NiFe inverse opal nanostructures for both oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). From their increased surface area, NiFe inverse opal structures can reduce the overpotential by similar to 70 mV and similar to 90 mV for OER and HER, respectively. In addition, correlations between increased surface area of inverse opal 3-dimensional nanostructures and electrocatalytic activity of OER and HER are explored. Furthermore, a NiFe inverse opal structure with an optimized number of thickness layers reduces the overpotential of water splitting by similar to 160 mV. When integrated to four series-connected Si heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells, the NiFe inverse opal electrolyzer achieves a 9.54% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency over 24 h under a zero-bias condition. The combined PEC water splitting investigated in this work is expected to provide a basis for the design of highly efficient renewable and sustainable water electrolysis systems that incorporate earth-abundant, low-cost materials.
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