Binary molecular-semiconductor p–n junctions for photoelectrocatalytic CO2 reduction

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Energy Mater. 1, 1364–1373 (2018). Article Google Scholar Download references Acknowledgements The research on molecular assemblies and the design and fabrication of photocathodes and photoelectrocatalysis was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under award number DE-SC0015739 (to B.S., T.-T.L. and T.J.M.). The design and synthesis of Si | n-GaN photocathodes was supported by the HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium, which was established as part of the Energy Materials Network under the US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fuel Cell Technologies Office under award number DE-EE0008086 (S.V. and Z.M.). The experiments with nanosecond transient absorption and using the fluorimeter and solar simulator were performed with the instruments within the AMPED EFRC Instrumentation Facility established by the Alliance for Molecular PhotoElectrode Design for Solar Fuels, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US DOE Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award DE-SC0001011. The ALD experiments were performed at the Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory—a member of the North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network supported by the National Science Foundation (grant ECCS-1542015) as part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure. Author information Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Bing Shan, Ting-Ting Li, Ludovic Troian-Gautier, M. Kyle Brennaman & Thomas J. Meyer Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Srinivas Vanka & Zetian Mi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Srinivas Vanka Research Center of Applied Solid State Chemistry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China Ting-Ting Li Contributions T.J.M. and B.S. conceived the research. T.J.M., B.S., Z.M. and S.V. designed the experiments. B.S., S.V., T.-T.L., L.T.-G. and M.K.B. performed the experiments and measurements. B.S. synthesized NPhN, RuCt and the surface diluent. L.T.-G. synthesized Ru(CP)22+. S.V. and Z.M. synthesized the Si | n-GaN electrode. T.J.M. and B.S. wrote the paper with input from all authors. Corresponding author Correspondence to Thomas J. Meyer. Ethics declarations Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests. 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