期刊
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
卷 48, 期 1, 页码 1013-1023出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2021.09.186
关键词
TiO2; SnO2; Core-shell structure; Oxygen vacancy; Photoelectrochemical water splitting
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea [2020R1F1A105408412, 2015M3D3A1A01064899]
The study demonstrated the use of sputtering technique to coat 1-D TiO2 with a SnO2 nanolayer for surface engineering, enhancing solar water splitting activity. The optimized SnO2/TiO2 system exhibited high photocurrent, incident photon to current efficiency, and hydrogen and oxygen production efficiency.
The production of O2 at TiO2 surface during the photoelectrochemical water splitting is the bottleneck of the reaction process indicating the need for surface engineering of TiO2. Here, 1-D TiO2 was coated with the defect tuned SnO2 nanolayer (via sputtering) for enhanced solar water splitting activity. The sputtering strategy allows oxygen vacancy tuning of SnO2 with complete coverage on TiO2. Importantly, the optimized SnO2/TiO2 system exhibited the record photocurrent of 1.85 mA cm-2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE, incident photon to current efficiency of 95% at 350 nm, and H2 and O2 production with -90% of faradaic efficiency. Band structure analysis indicated a decrease in work function along with an upward shift of Fermi level and conduction band at the electrolyte interface after SnO2 coating. The present study demonstrates the utilization of oxygen vacancy in SnO2 for the surface engineered electrodes for facile O2 production during solar water splitting.
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