Defect engineering of nanostructures: Insights into photoelectrochemical water splitting

W Lei, Y Yu, H Zhang, Q Jia, S Zhang - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of long-term and sustainable energy economy is one of the most
significant technical challenges facing humanity. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting …

Hematite-based photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting: Performance, understanding, and possibilities

H Liu, X Fan, Y Li, H Guo, W Jiang, G Liu - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is considered a prospective and attractive way to
transforming solar energy to hydrogen (H 2). Hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3) is an n-type …

Mott–Schottky analysis of photoelectrodes: sanity checks are needed

K Sivula - ACS Energy Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
As many of the readers of ACS Energy Letters know, semiconductor photoelectrodes are
under development for the direct conversion of solar energy into storable chemical fuels …

Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting by gC3N4/TiO2 Nanotube Array Heterostructures

C Liu, F Wang, J Zhang, K Wang, Y Qiu, Q Liang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2018 - Springer
Well-ordered TiO 2 nanotube arrays (TNTAs) decorated with graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N
4) were fabricated by anodic oxidization and calcination process. First, TNTAs were …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects of electrochemically synthesized hematite photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting: A review

YW Phuan, WJ Ong, MN Chong, JD Ocon - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3) is found to be one of the most promising photoanode
materials used for the application in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting due to its …

The “Rust” challenge: on the correlations between electronic structure, excited state dynamics, and photoelectrochemical performance of hematite photoanodes for …

DA Grave, N Yatom, DS Ellis, MC Toroker… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, hematite's potential as a photoanode material for solar hydrogen production
has ignited a renewed interest in its physical and interfacial properties, which continues to …

Enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting efficiency of hematite (α-Fe2O3)-Based photoelectrode by the introduction of maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) nanoparticles

T Tokubuchi, RI Arbi, P Zhenhua, K Katayama… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
To enhance the photo-electrochemical performance of hematite photo-electrode, we
designed a phase-junction configuration of α and γ-Fe 2 O 3. By inserting maghemite (γ-Fe 2 …

Understanding charge transfer, defects and surface states at hematite photoanodes

J Zhang, S Eslava - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Hematite (α-Fe2O3) has been widely investigated as a promising photoanode candidate in
photoelectrochemical cells for solar water splitting. Although significant advances have been …

Do** bottleneck in hematite: Multipole clustering by small polarons

TJ Smart, VU Baltazar, M Chen, B Yao… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Highly effective do** in transition metal oxides is critical to fundamentally overcome low
carrier conductivity due to small polaron formation and reach their ideal efficiency for energy …

Sn doped α-Fe2O3 (Sn= 0, 10, 20, 30 wt%) photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting applications

BJ Rani, G Ravi, R Yuvakkumar, S Ravichandran… - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
One pot hydrothermal route was adapted to synthesis pristine and Sn doped α-Fe 2 O 3
nanospheres successfully. Sharp high intense diffraction peaks obtained from XRD …