期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 6, 期 8, 页码 5852-5859出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am500643y
关键词
hematite; photoelectrochemistry; water splitting; artificial photosynthesis; Fe2O3; Mott Schottky
资金
- Centre of Artificial Photosynthesis via the Solar Fuels Lab at NTU
- Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore-Berkeley Research Initiative for Sustainable Energy (SinBeR-ISE) CREATE Programme
Here, we report a significant improvement of the photoelectrochemical (PEC) properties of hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) to oxidize water by doping with manganese. Hematite nanorods were grown on a fluorine-treated tin oxide (FTO) substrate by a hydrothermal method in the presence on Mn. Systematic physical analyses were performed to investigate the presence of Mn in the samples. Fe2O3 nanorods with 5 mol % Mn treatment showed a photocurrent density of 1.6 inA cm(-2) (75% higher than that of pristine Fe2O3) at 1.23 V versus RHE and a plateau photocurrent density of 3.2 mA cm(-2) at 1.8 V versus RHE in a 1 M NaOH electrolyte solution (pH 13.6). We attribute the increase in the photocurrent density, and thus in the oxygen evolving capacity, to the increased donor density resulting from Mn doping of the Fe2O3 nanorods, as confirmed by Mott-Schottky measurement, as well as the suppression of electron-hole recombination and enhancement in hole transport, as detected by chronoamperometry measurements.
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