The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis

S Corby, RR Rao, L Steier, JR Durrant - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Generating charge carriers with lifetimes long enough to drive catalysis is a critical aspect for
photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic systems, and a key determinant of their efficiency …

Oxygen vacancy–based metal oxides photoanodes in photoelectrochemical water splitting

Y Wang, J Zhang, MS Balogun, Y Tong… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is considered as a promising technology for
producing clean energy such as hydrogen. The urgent challenge in this field is how to …

Charge Relays via Dual Carbon‐Actions on Nanostructured BiVO4 for High Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Y Wang, D Chen, J Zhang, MS Balogun… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical water splitting based on nanostructured bismuth vanadate (BiVO4)
can be a promising strategy to produce low‐cost and green H2 to replace fossil fuels and …

A BiVO4 Photoanode with a VOx Layer Bearing Oxygen Vacancies Offers Improved Charge Transfer and Oxygen Evolution Kinetics in Photoelectrochemical Water …

B Liu, X Wang, Y Zhang, L Xu, T Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sluggish oxygen evolution kinetics are one of the key limitations of bismuth vanadate
(BiVO4) photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. To address …

Amorphous type FeOOH modified defective BiVO4 photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water oxidation

X Lu, K Ye, S Zhang, J Zhang, J Yang, Y Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a new approach of inducing oxygen vacancy in BiVO 4/FeOOH nanostructures is
designed, where metal trichalcogenide is introduced. The strategy involves integration of Bi …

Interface engineering of Ta3N5 thin film photoanode for highly efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

J Fu, Z Fan, M Nakabayashi, H Ju… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interface engineering is a proven strategy to improve the efficiency of thin film semiconductor
based solar energy conversion devices. Ta3N5 thin film photoanode is a promising …

Nitrogen-incorporation activates NiFeOx catalysts for efficiently boosting oxygen evolution activity and stability of BiVO4 photoanodes

B Zhang, S Yu, Y Dai, X Huang, L Chou, G Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Developing low-cost and highly efficient catalysts toward the efficient oxygen evolution
reaction (OER) is highly desirable for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Herein, we …

Low-bias photoelectrochemical water splitting via mediating trap states and small polaron hopping

H Wu, L Zhang, A Du, R Irani, R van de Krol… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Metal oxides are promising for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting due to their
robustness and low cost. However, poor charge carrier transport impedes their activity …

Engineering Single-Atomic Ni-N4-O Sites on Semiconductor Photoanodes for High-Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

X Zhang, P Zhai, Y Zhang, Y Wu, C Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Direct photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a promising solution for solar energy
conversion; however, there is a pressing bottleneck to address the intrinsic charge transport …

Engineering MoOx/MXene Hole Transfer Layers for Unexpected Boosting of Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

Y Song, X Zhang, Y Zhang, P Zhai, Z Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of semiconductor photoanodes is of great practical interest for the
realization of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Herein, MXene quantum dots …