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Photoelectrochemical Performance for Water Oxidation Improved by Molecular Nickel Porphyrin-Integrated WO3 /TiO2
Peicheng Wei1, Kaifeng Lin1, Dedong Meng2
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
Abstract:
A WO3 /TiO2 heterojunction photoanode was prepared by in situ growth of WO3 on a mesoporous TiO2 electrode. The photoinduced charge-transfer properties and chargeseparation improvement in this kind of type-II heterojunction were characterized by transient surface photovoltage spectra. By using sulfite oxidation as a hole scavenger, we demonstrated that 72 % of the photo-generated holes are reaching the surface of the photoanode, but the efficiency of hole injection (ηox ) into the electrolyte was only 48 %. For the first time, a NiII meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin (NiTCPP) was incorporated as a water oxidation catalyst into the WO3 /TiO2 heterojunction photoanode, which promoted the value of ηox to 81 %. The maximum applied bias photon-to-current efficiency for the WO3 /TiO2 /NiTCPP photoanode was determined to be 0.2 % at 1.01 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), under which condition a Faradic efficiency of 89 % for water oxidation was achieved (averaged over 1 h of photolysis).
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