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Prashant Choubey1, Ritu Verma1, Mrinmoyee Basu1
1Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, 333031, India.
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Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting is an energy-efficient and eco-friendly technique to produce green hydrogen (H2). Here, WO3 is synthesized for saline water-splitting reaction. Initially, the activity of WO3 is enhanced through morphology tuning. Nanoparticles (NPs), thick nanosheets (TSs), and nanoflakes (NFs) of WO3 are synthesized, and their PEC activity is determined. The NFs show a photocurrent density of 1.53 mA/cm2 at 1.2 V vs. Ag/AgCl, whereas TSs and NPs can generate 1.17 mA/cm2 and 1.07 mA/cm2 at 1.2 V vs. Ag/AgCl, respectively. The low charge transportation rate inhibits the PEC performance of these NFs in water-splitting reactions. To mitigate this problem, the type-II heterojunction is constructed with optimized deposition of ZnWO4 on WO3, which favors the migration of charge-carriers in opposite directions, facilitating the charge-carrier separation and eventually enhancing the PEC activity. The optimized heterojunction shows a photocurrent density 1.5 times greater than bare WO3 and 2.4 times enhanced carrier density, 2.16×1021 cm-3. The heterostructure's rapid OCP decay and higher charge injection efficiency indicate an improved charge transport capability, the primary driving force for enhanced PEC activity. The stability of WO3/ZnWO4 is studied for one hour.
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