A two-photon tandem black phosphorus quantum dot-sensitized BiVO4photoanode for solar water splitting

Bingjun Jin; Yoonjun Cho; Cheolwoo Park; Jeehun Jeong; Sungsoon Kim; Jie Jin; Wooyul Kim; Luyang Wang; Siyu Lu; Shengli Zhang; Sang Ho Oh; Kan Zhang; Jong Hyeok Park

doi:10.1039/d1ee03014k

A two-photon tandem black phosphorus quantum dot-sensitized BiVO₄photoanode for solar water splitting

Bingjun Jin, Yoonjun Cho, Cheolwoo Park, Jeehun Jeong, Sungsoon Kim, Jie Jin, Wooyul Kim, Luyang Wang, Siyu Lu, Shengli Zhang, Sang Ho Oh, Kan Zhang, Jong Hyeok Park

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Abstract

The photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting efficiency is profoundly restricted by the limited light harvesting, rapid charge recombination, and sluggish water oxidation kinetics, in which the construction of a photoelectrode requires a strategic approach to overcome such intrinsic hurdles. Herein, we demonstrate novel black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) with significant light absorbability up to the near-infrared region (NIR) to sensitize the etched BiVO4 photoanode (E-BiVO4) for a two-photon absorption tandem photoanode. A subsequent TiO2 overlayer (OL) significantly improves the stability of the E-BiVO4/BPQDs and eliminates the surface trap state to enhance charge separation. Finally, an oxygen evolution catalyst (OEC), NiOOH, loaded on E-BiVO4/BPQDs/OL further improves the water oxidation kinetics. The rationally designed E-BiVO4/BPQDs/OL-OEC with multiple components, each with definite functions, achieves a photocurrent density of 6.2 mA cm-2 at 1.23 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) under AM 1.5 illumination, offering a high-end standard approach for achieving efficient solar-to-fuel conversion devices by combining a photosensitizer and passivation layer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	672-679
Number of pages	8
Journal	Energy and Environmental Science
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ee03014k
Publication status	Published - 2022 Feb

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by NSFC (22172077, 21902104), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BZ2020063), NRF Korea (NRF-2019R1A2C3010479, NRF-2019M1-A2A2065612, NRF-2019M3E6A1064525, and 2019R1A4A1029237), Jiangsu International Science and Technology Cooperation Program (BZ2020063), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 30921011216). J. H. P. acknowledges the support by Yonsei-KIST Convergence Research Program. The authors thank Y. G. and X.F.Y who participated in the discussions for analyzing the data obtained from the calculations.

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© 2022 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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