Fe<sub>2</sub>TiO<sub>5</sub> as an Efficient Co-catalyst To Improve the Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Performance of BiVO<sub>4</sub>
- Yangqin Gao (1309239)
- Yandong Li (277625)
- Guoqing Yang (245504)
- Songsong Li (3665758)
- Nan Xiao (406004)
- Boran Xu (1310724)
- Shuang Liu (8449)
- Ping Qiu (54843)
- Shijie Hao (1396396)
- Lei Ge (520445)
Publication date
November 2018
DOI Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Abstract
Fe2TiO5 was synthesized via the solvothermal method and adopted as co-catalyst to improve the photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting performance of BiVO4 photoanode. After surface modification by Fe2TiO5, the BiVO4/Fe2TiO5 photoanode shows a 300 mV cathodic shift in onset potential and 3 times enhancement in photocurrent, which delivers a photocurrent density of 3.2 mA/cm2 at 1.23 V vs reverse hydrogen electrode. Systematic optical, electrochemical, and intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy characterizations were performed to explore the role of Fe2TiO5 and reveal that the enhanced PEC performance is mainly caused by the surface passivation effect of Fe2TiO5
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