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  • Title: Enhanced Solar Water Splitting by Swift Charge Separation in Au/FeOOH Sandwiched Single-Crystalline Fe2 O3 Nanoflake Photoelectrodes.
    Author: Wang L, Nguyen NT, Zhang Y, Bi Y, Schmuki P.
    Journal: ChemSusChem; 2017 Jul 10; 10(13):2720-2727. PubMed ID: 28437588.
    Abstract:
    In this work, single crystalline α-Fe2 O3 nanoflakes (NFs) are formed in a highly dense array by Au seeding of a Fe substrate by a thermal oxidation technique. The NFs are conformally decorated with a thin FeOOH cocatalyst layer. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) measurements show that this photoanode, incorporating α-Fe2 O3 /FeOOH NFs rooted on the Au/Fe structure, exhibits significantly enhanced PEC water oxidation performance compared to the plain α-Fe2 O3 nanostructure on the Fe substrate. The α-Fe2 O3 /FeOOH NFs on Au/Fe photoanode yields a photocurrent density of 3.1 mA cm-2 at 1.5 VRHE , and a remarkably low onset potential of 0.5-0.6 VRHE in 1 m KOH under AM 1.5G (100 mW cm-2 ) simulated sunlight illumination. The enhancement in PEC performance can be attributed to a synergistic effect of the FeOOH top decoration and the Au underlayer, whereby FeOOH facilitates hole transfer at the interface of electrode/electrolyte and the Au layer provides a sink for the electron transport to the back contact. This results in a drastically improved charge-separation efficiency in the single crystalline α-Fe2 O3 NF photoanode.
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