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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 28, Pages 9376-9380Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201300010
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crystal growth; electrochemistry; nanoparticles; photochemistry; thin films
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- Korea Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (KCAP), Sogang University
- Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST) through the National Research Foundation of Korea [2012M1A2A2671783]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2012M1A2A2671783] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Homogeneous TiO2 single crystals with high exposure of {100} reactive facets were constructed as a seed monolayer on transparent conductive substrates with the desired orientation of reactive facets. A secondary growth process was subsequently carried out on the monolayer seed film to form an axis-oriented continuous reactive film. Performing secondary growth with different precursors led to optimized conditions for high-performance photoelectrochemical activity of anatase TiO2 films. Experimental techniques such as UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, high-resolution SEM, and photoelectrochemistry were used to characterize the structural, optical, and photoelectrochemical properties of the as-synthesized films. As a photoanode in a photoelectrochemical cell, the axis-oriented reactive film shows a maximum photocurrent density of 0.3mAcm-2, as opposed to 0.075mAcm-2 for non-axis-oriented (randomly oriented) TiO2 film.
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