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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 3, 期 7, 页码 4004-4009出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta06498d
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- National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China [014M550314]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China [BK20140383]
- Suzhou Science and Technology Development Program [ZXG2013002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303251, 21171060, 21403287, 21433013]
The three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical nanostructure is one of the promising candidates for high performance photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting electrodes due to the reduced carrier diffusion distance, improved light absorption efficiency and charge collection efficiency. Here, by growing omnidirectional, densely packed branches on TiO2 nanowires, we demonstrated a 3D hyperbranched hierarchical TiO2 nanowire (HHNW) architecture that could significantly enhance the performance of PEC water splitting. Under a solar simulator with chopped AM 1.5G light of 100 mW cm(-2) intensity, the HHNW electrode yielded a photocurrent density of 1.21 mA cm(-2) at 1.23 V with respect to the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), which was about four times higher than that of TiO2 nanowires (NWs) (0.34 mA cm(-2)). The highest incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) obtained from our HHNWs was 77% at 365-425 nm. This greatly improved PEC performance can be attributed to the improved light absorption efficiency and the increased contact surface areas at the TiO2/electrolyte interface.
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