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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 35, 期 10, 页码 4944-4948出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.08.070
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Iron oxide; Semiconductor; CM-n-Fe2O3; n-Fe2O3; Nanowires; Photosplitting; Water
Iron oxide n-Fe2O3 nanowire photoelectrodes were synthesized by thermal oxidation of Fe metal sheet (Alfa Co. 0.25 mm thick) in an electric oven then tested for their photoactivity. The photoresponse of the n-Fe2O3 nanowires was evaluated by measuring the rate of water splitting reaction to hydrogen and oxygen, which is proportional to photocurrent density, J. The optimized electric oven-made n-Fe2O3 nanowire photoelectrodes showed photocurrent densities of 1.46 mA cm(-2) at measured potential of 0.1 V/SCE at illumination intensity of 100 mW cm(-2) from a Solar simulator with a global AM 1.5 filter. For the optimized carbon modified (CM)-n-TiO2 synthesized by thermal flame oxidation the photocurrent density for water splitting was found to increase by two fold to 3.0 mA cm(-2) measured at the same measured potential and the illumination intensity. The carbon modified (CM)-n-Fe2O3 electrode showed a shift of the open circuit potential by -100 mV/SCE compared to undoped n-Fe2O3 nanowires. A maximum photoconversion efficiency of 2.3% at applied potential of 0.5 V/E-aoc was found for CM-n-Fe2O3 compared to 1.69% for n-Fe2O3 nanowires at higher applied potential of 0.7 V/E-aoc. These CM-n-Fe2O3 and n-Fe2O3 nanowires thin films were characterized using photocurrent density measurements under monochromatic light illumination, UV-Vis spectra, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). (C) 2009 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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