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 …

Toward realistic models of the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

TE Jones, D Teschner, S Piccinin - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) supplies the protons and electrons
needed to transform renewable electricity into chemicals and fuels. However, the OER is …

Engineering BiVO4 and Oxygen Evolution Cocatalyst Interfaces with Rapid Hole Extraction for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Y Zhang, L Xu, B Liu, X Wang, T Wang, X **ao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tailoring the oxygen evolution cocatalyst (OEC)/BiVO4 interfaces with a hole transfer layer
(HTL) is expected to suppress the interfacial charge recombination, thus achieving highly …

Boosting Charge Transport in BiVO4 Photoanode for Solar Water Oxidation

Y Lu, Y Yang, X Fan, Y Li, D Zhou, B Cai… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to regulate charge separation is pivotal for obtaining high efficiency of any
photoelectrode used for solar fuel production. Vacancy engineering for metal oxide …

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of metal oxide electrodes for energy applications

ARC Bredar, AL Chown, AR Burton… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal oxides have been of great importance to the development of energy conversion and
storage technologies including heterojunction solar cells, Li-ion batteries, and …

Magnetic-thermal external field activate the pyro-magnetic effect of pyroelectric crystal (NaNbO3) to build a promising multi-field coupling-assisted …

T Li, Y Zou, Z Liu - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023 - Elsevier
Rationalizing the external field advantage and manipulating more carrier separation is of
great significance for expanding the research of external field-assisted photoelectrochemical …

Strategies for enhancing the photocurrent, photovoltage, and stability of photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting

W Yang, RR Prabhakar, J Tan, SD Tilley… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
To accelerate the deployment of hydrogen produced by renewable solar energy, several
technologies have been competitively developed, including photoelectrochemical (PEC) …

Photo‐Electrochemical Glycerol Conversion over a Mie Scattering Effect Enhanced Porous BiVO4 Photoanode

C Lin, C Dong, S Kim, Y Lu, Y Wang, Z Yu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The photo‐electrochemical (PEC) oxidation of glycerol (GLY) to high‐value‐added
dihydroxyacetone (DHA) can be achieved over a BiVO4 photoanode, while the PEC …

α-Fe2O3 as a versatile and efficient oxygen atom transfer catalyst in combination with H2O as the oxygen source

Y Zhao, C Deng, D Tang, L Ding, Y Zhang, H Sheng… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Haematite (α-Fe2O3) has been extensively investigated as a photoanode in
photoelectrochemical water oxidation, but the product O2 has a low economic value. Here …

In Situ Formation of Oxygen Vacancies Achieving Near‐Complete Charge Separation in Planar BiVO4 Photoanodes

S Wang, T He, P Chen, A Du, K Ostrikov… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a suitable bandgap of bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) for visible light absorption, most of
the photogenerated holes in BiVO4 photoanodes are vanished before reaching the surfaces …