Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Bipolar charge collecting structure enables overall water splitting on ferroelectric photocatalysts

  • Yong Liu,
  • Mingjian Zhang,
  • Zhuan Wang,
  • Jiandong He,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Sheng Ye,
  • Xiuli Wang,
  • Dongfeng Li,
  • Heng Yin,
  • Qianhong Zhu,
  • Huanwang Jing,
  • Yuxiang Weng,
  • Feng Pan,
  • Ruotian Chen,
  • Can Li,
  • Fengtao Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32002-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While ferroelectric materials are promising candidates for solar water splitting, most examples show poor activities. Here, authors prepare charge-collecting nanostructures on the positive and negative domains of BaTiO3 and demonstrate photocatalytic overall water splitting.