Earth-abundant photoelectrodes for water splitting and alternate oxidation reactions: Recent advances and future perspectives

MP Suryawanshi, UV Ghorpade, CY Toe… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar water splitting by means of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells offers the promise to
produce cost-effective renewable and clean fuel from abundant sunlight and water. Lately …

Recent advancements in bismuth vanadate photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting

J Chi, Z Jiang, J Yan, A Larimi, Z Wang, L Wang… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Efficient solar fuel production is indispensable for achieving a sustainable and carbon-
neutral society. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting provides a promising technique …

Amorphous type FeOOH modified defective BiVO4 photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water oxidation

X Lu, K Ye, S Zhang, J Zhang, J Yang, Y Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a new approach of inducing oxygen vacancy in BiVO 4/FeOOH nanostructures is
designed, where metal trichalcogenide is introduced. The strategy involves integration of Bi …

Enriched surface oxygen vacancies of photoanodes by photoetching with enhanced charge separation

S Feng, T Wang, B Liu, C Hu, L Li, ZJ Zhao… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A facile photoetching approach is described that alleviates the negative effects from bulk
defects by confining the oxygen vacancy (Ovac) at the surface of BiVO4 photoanode, by 10 …

Activating a Semiconductor–Liquid Junction via Laser‐Derived Dual Interfacial Layers for Boosted Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

J Jian, S Wang, Q Ye, F Li, G Su, W Liu, C Qu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The semiconductor–liquid junction (SCLJ), the dominant place in photoelectrochemical
(PEC) catalysis, determines the interfacial activity and stability of photoelectrodes, whcih …

Photothermal effect-enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting of a BiVO 4 photoanode modified with dual-functional polyaniline

M Zhao, T Chen, B He, X Hu, J Huang, P Yi… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Both bulk charge separation and surface reaction kinetics are highly important to
semiconductor-based water splitting photoanodes. Polyaniline (PANI) with dual functions of …

State-of-the-art progress in the use of ternary metal oxides as photoelectrode materials for water splitting and organic synthesis

H He, A Liao, W Guo, W Luo, Y Zhou, Z Zou - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
To tackle the issue of the depletion of fossil fuels and their environmental misdeeds,
photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting and organic synthesis have been drawing …

Turning the unwanted surface bismuth enrichment to favourable BiVO4/BiOCl heterojunction for enhanced photoelectrochemical performance

C Liu, J Zhou, J Su, L Guo - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
Bismuth enrichment as a common issue at the surface of bismuth vanadate (BiVO 4) has
been frequently reported as a severe limitation to its water oxidation kinetics. To address this …

Ligand‐Engineered Quantum Dots Decorated Heterojunction Photoelectrodes for Self‐Biased Solar Water Splitting

M Cai, X Tong, H Zhao, X Li, Y You, R Wang, L Xia… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A cost‐effective and high‐efficiency photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting system
based on colloidal quantum dots (QDs) represents a potential solar‐to‐hydrogen (STH) …

Porous CuBi 2 O 4 photocathodes with rationally engineered morphology and composition towards high-efficiency photoelectrochemical performance

Y Xu, J Jian, F Li, W Liu, L Jia, H Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
CuBi2O4 with a suitable optical bandgap and positive onset potential is a promising
photocathode material for solar hydrogen evolution, while fine control of the morphology and …