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Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Performance on BiVO4 by Coupling of CoMoO4 as a Hole-Transfer and
Jinyan Du1, Xiaohui Zhong1, Huichao He1
1State Key Laboratory of Environmental-Friendly Energy Materials, Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering , Southwest University of Science and Technology , Mianyang 621010 , China.
Abstract:
Manipulation of interfacial charge separation and transfer is one of the primary breakthroughs to improve the water oxidation activity and stability of BiVO4 photoanode. In the present work, a CoMoO4-coupled BiVO4 (BiVO4/CoMoO4) film was designed and prepared as the photoanode for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation. Compared with the bare BiVO4 film, obviously improved PEC water oxidation performance was observed on the BiVO4/CoMoO4 film. Specifically, a higher water oxidation photocurrent density of 3.04 mA/cm2 at 1.23 V versus RHE was achieved on the BiVO4/CoMoO4 photoanode, which is of about 220% improvement over bare BiVO4 photoanode (1.34 mA/cm2 at 1.23 V vs RHE). In addition, the BiVO4/CoMoO4 film photoanode was of better stability and faster hole-to-oxygen kinetics for water oxidation, without significant activity attenuation for 6 h of reaction at 0.65 V versus RHE. The enhanced water oxidation performance on the BiVO4/CoMoO4 film photoanode can be ascribed to the synergistic effect of the following factors: (i) thermodynamically, the photogenerated holes of BiVO4 are directionally transferred to CoMoO4 through their physical coupling interface and valance band potential matching; and (ii) kinetically, the transferred holes induce the formation of Co3+-active sites on CoMoO4 that could synergistically oxidize H2O to molecular O2 with stable activity.
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