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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
卷 22, 期 6, 页码 2733-2739出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1jm14355g
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- Ministry of Education
- Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development under AFOSR
- National Science Council
- National Taiwan University
- Academia Sinica, Taiwan
A cost-effective and simple electroplating technique has been developed to prepare layered manganese oxide (MnO2) arrays as a promising material for solar hydrogen production and waste-water cleaning through photoelectrochemical (PEC) process. The microstructure of these MnO2 nanosheets can be referenced to Birnessite-type, as characterized by Raman spectra and transmission electron microscopy. The bandgap energy of the as-grown nanosheets determined from UV-vis spectroscopy is about 2.1 eV. Mott-Schottky plots show the flat band potential of the MnO2 nanosheets to be -0.01 V and a donor concentration of 4.68 x 10(20) cm(-3). Remarkable photocurrent in response to visible light is observed in the presence of hole acceptors, such as sodium formate and methanol, which efficiently suppress the recombination loss of electron-hole pairs from localized d-d transitions within manganese ion. Meanwhile, the transient photocurrent-time responses and the effect of different hole acceptors on PEC activity are studied with an increase of respective hole acceptor concentration, and the results reveal the critical role in the process of absorption and decomposition of the hole acceptor. Significantly, the MnO2 nanosheets exhibit an incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency of 7% in response to the monochromatic wavelength of 400 nm, which is comparable to that from hematite (alpha-Fe2O3). These results demonstrate the nanoporous MnO2 nanosheets have great potential in solar hydrogen applications and organic pollutant cleaning.
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