Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Enhancing photoelectrochemical water splitting by combining work function tuning and heterojunction engineering

  • Kai-Hang Ye,
  • Haibo Li,
  • Duan Huang,
  • Shuang Xiao,
  • Weitao Qiu,
  • Mingyang Li,
  • Yuwen Hu,
  • Wenjie Mai,
  • Hongbing Ji,
  • Shihe Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11586-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While photoelectrodes represent a promising solar-to-fuel conversion technology, material challenges limit performances. Here, authors improve the onset potential and charge separation of bismuth vanadate photoanode water splitting performances by work function tuning and heterojunction engineering.