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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Photochemistry

Background:

  • Solar water oxidation is crucial for solar fuel synthesis but faces challenges in system durability and cost-effectiveness.
  • Understanding the detailed processes, especially under photochemical conditions, remains limited.
  • Previous work showed molecular dyad water oxidation kinetics depend on photocharge generation and chemical steps.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of temperature on heterogeneous solar water oxidation systems.
  • To compare the temperature dependence of water oxidation on TiO2 and Fe2O3 model systems.
  • To elucidate the role of surface chemical kinetics and charge recombination in photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance.

Main Methods:

  • Studied water oxidation performance on TiO2 and Fe2O3 at varying temperatures and applied potentials (0.1–1.5 V vs RHE).
  • Utilized intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS) to confirm electron-hole recombination.
  • Analyzed surface chemical kinetics to explain differing temperature dependences.

Main Results:

  • TiO2 showed monotonically increasing water oxidation performance with temperature.
  • Fe2O3 performance increased with temperature at high potentials (>1.2 V vs RHE) but decreased at low potentials (<1.2 V vs RHE).
  • Decreased Fe2O3 performance at low temperatures was linked to increased electron-hole recombination.

Conclusions:

  • Differing temperature dependences on TiO2 and Fe2O3 stem from their distinct surface chemical kinetics.
  • Charge recombination in PEC systems involves surface electrons and holes stored in surface chemical species.
  • Optimizing solar water splitting devices requires considering temperature effects on kinetics, as higher temperatures are not universally beneficial.