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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 114, Issue -, Pages 271-277Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.09.172
Keywords
Photoelectrochemical water splitting; Oxygen evolution reaction; Tungsten trioxide; Nickel-borate
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 21173016, 20973020]
- Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China [20101102110002]
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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the key process for solar powered water-splitting. In this work, we report the fabrication of the WO3 nanoneedles/nickel-borate composite photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical OER, with the high-aspect-ratio nanoneedles as light-absorbing material and the nickel-borate (Ni-B-i) as oxygen-evolving catalyst. We demonstrate that the combination of Ni-B-i with WO3 nanoneedles significantly enhances the activity of the photoanode toward OER by negatively shifting the onset potential of the photocurrent and improving the photocurrent within the entire oxygen-evolving potential region. Moreover, the WO3 nanoneedles/Ni-B-i composite photoanodes exhibit superior stability to the WO3 nanoneedles photoanodes in borate buffer solution at all oxygen-evolving potentials. The present result offers promising opportunities for using Ni-B-i as an oxygen-evolving catalyst to modify semiconductor photoanode to improve solar-to-oxygen efficiency. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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