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NANOSCALE
卷 5, 期 5, 页码 1939-1944出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr33036a
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- Hydrogen Energy RD Center
- 21st Century Frontier RD Program
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea
- NRF of Korea
- MEST [NRF-2009-C1AAA001-2009-0094157]
- Future-based Technology Development program [2010-0029321]
A graphene interlayer was successfully inserted into inverse opaline hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) photoanodes for solar water splitting using the template assisted electrodeposition method. Finding the optimal thermal annealing temperature is crucial for the successful attainment of the inverse opaline hematite nanostructure on a graphene thin film. This is because an appropriate temperature is required to convert pre-deposited Fe-0 into hematite with optimum crystalline structure and to simultaneously remove the soft polystyrene template without thermal degradation of the graphene film on a transparent conductive substrate. Different from the conventional strategies based on graphene-semiconductor systems, this novel mechanism has been proposed whereby the graphene interlayer can act as both an electron transfer layer and an electrolyte blocking barrier, by which it not only reduces the charge recombination at the substrate-electrolyte interface but also helps electron transportation from alpha-Fe2O3 to the substrate of the photoanode. Therefore, both photocurrent density and incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE) have been remarkably improved, which are several times higher than those of the pure inverse opaline hematite photoanode.
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