High-Performance Ultrathin BiVO4 Photoanode on Textured Polydimethylsiloxane Substrates for Solar Water Splitting

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-75

  Zhao, Jiheng ^a   Guo, Yu ^a   Cai, Lili ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Wang, Ken Xingze ^a   Cho, In Sun ^b   Lee, Chi Hwan ^c   Fan, Shanhui ^a   Zheng, Xiaolin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROCHANNELS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONES; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE REACTIONS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS) SUBSTRATES; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; TRANSFER PRINTING;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 85002772942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00032     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. 4 Core/Shell Nanowire Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 1099-1105 10.1021/nl500022z
2. 4 by Composite Electrodeposition with Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 23048-23056 10.1021/jp408619u
3. 4 through Controlled Electron Transport Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 1121-1131 10.1039/C3CP54356K
4. 2 Nanowires with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 12299-12306 10.1039/c4cp01748j
5. Cho, I. S.; Lee, C. H.; Feng, Y.; Logar, M.; Rao, P. M.; Cai, L.; Kim, D. R.; Sinclair, R.; Zheng, X. Codoping Titanium Dioxide Nanowires with Tungsten and Carbon for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Performance Nat. Commun. 2013, 4, 1723 10.1038/ncomms2729
6. 2 Nanowires for Enhanced Solar Water-Splitting Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 24-31 10.1021/nl4026902
7. 2 Core-Shell Nanoparticles Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 15272-15277 10.1039/c4cp01583e
8. 4 Photonic Crystals for Efficient Water Splitting Small 2014, 10, 3970-3978 10.1002/smll.201400970
9. Sun, K.; Shen, S.; Liang, Y.; Burrows, P. E.; Mao, S. S.; Wang, D. Enabling Silicon for Solar-Fuel Production Chem. Rev. 2014, 114, 8662-8719 10.1021/cr300459q
10. 2 Shell Nanowires on Stainless Steel Mesh for Flexible Photoelectrochemical Cells Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 100, 084104 10.1063/1.3684805
11. Lee, S.; Park, S.; Han, G. S.; Kim, D. H.; Noh, J. H.; Cho, I. S.; Jung, H. S.; Hong, K. S. Transparent-Conducting-Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Nanoscale 2014, 6, 8649-8655 10.1039/C4NR02298J
12. Dotan, H.; Kfir, O.; Sharlin, E.; Blank, O.; Gross, M.; Dumchin, I.; Ankonina, G.; Rothschild, A. Resonant Light Trapping in Ultrathin Films for Water Splitting Nat. Mater. 2013, 12, 158-164 10.1038/nmat3477
13. Kim, S. J.; Thomann, I.; Park, J.; Kang, J.-H.; Vasudev, A. P.; Brongersma, M. L. Light Trapping for Solar Fuel Generation with Mie Resonances Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 1446-1452 10.1021/nl404575e
14. Li, J.; Qiu, Y.; Wei, Z.; Lin, Q.; Zhang, Q.; Yan, K.; Chen, H.; Xiao, S.; Fan, Z.; Yang, S. A Three-Dimensional Hexagonal Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Nanocone Array: A Superior Light Harvesting Electrode for High Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, 7, 3651-3658 10.1039/C4EE01581A
15. Qiu, Y.; Leung, S.-F.; Zhang, Q.; Hua, B.; Lin, Q.; Wei, Z.; Tsui, K.-H.; Zhang, Y.; Yang, S.; Fan, Z. Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Ultrathin Films of Hematite on Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Structures Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 2123-2129 10.1021/nl500359e
16. Lee, C. H.; Kim, D. R.; Cho, I. S.; William, N.; Wang, Q.; Zheng, X. L. Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Film Solar Cell on Universal Substrates Sci. Rep. 2012, 2, 1000 10.1038/srep01000
17. Lee, C. H.; Kim, D. R.; Zheng, X. L. Fabrication of Nanowire Electronics on Nonconventional Substrates by Water-Assisted Transfer Printing Method Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 3435-3439 10.1021/nl201901z
18. 3 Photoelectrodes During Annealing J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 212-215 10.1039/C2TA00431C
19. 4 Thin Film Photoanodes: A Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity Study J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 2752-2757 10.1021/jz4013257
20. 4 Photoanodes J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 17594-17598 10.1021/jp203004v
21. Bornoz, P.; Abdi, F. F.; Tilley, S. D.; Dam, B.; van de Krol, R.; Graetzel, M.; Sivula, K. A Bismuth Vanadate-Cuprous Oxide Tandem Cell for Overall Solar Water Splitting J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 16959-16966 10.1021/jp500441h
22. 4 Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, 7, 1402-1408 10.1039/c3ee44031a
23. 4 Thin Film Photoanodes Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 1651-1657 10.1039/C3CP53904K
24. Cho, I. S.; Han, H. S.; Logar, M.; Park, J.; Zheng, X. Enhancing Low-Bias Performance of Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting by Simultaneous Reduction of Bulk, Interface, and Surface Recombination Pathways Adv. Energy Mater. 2016, 6, 1501840 10.1002/aenm.201501840
25. Li, H.; Contryman, A. W.; Qian, X.; Ardakani, S. M.; Gong, Y.; Wang, X.; Weisse, J. M.; Lee, C. H.; Zhao, J.; Ajayan, P. M. et al. Optoelectronic Crystal of Artificial Atoms in Strain-Textured Molybdenum Disulphide Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 7381 10.1038/ncomms8381
26. 4 Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 2964-2973 10.1039/c4sc00469h
27. Liu, V.; Fan, S. S4: A Free Electromagnetic Solver for Layered Periodic Structures Comput. Phys. Commun. 2012, 183, 2233-2244 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.026
28. Kibsgaard, J.; Jaramillo, T. F. Molybdenum Phosphosulfide: An Active, Acid-Stable, Earth-Abundant Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 14433-14437 10.1002/anie.201408222
29. 4 Photoanodes Prepared from Electrodeposited Bismuth Precursors: Effect of Zinc Ions as Directing Agent Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2015, 54, 10723-10730 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b02460
30. 4 in Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Is Dictated by a Midgap Electronic State J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 24726-24732 10.1021/jp408434v
31. 2 Thin Films Prepared by Direct Current Magnetron Reactive Sputtering Vacuum 2012, 86, 1323-1327 10.1016/j.vacuum.2011.12.006
32. 4 Nat. Commun. 2013, 4, 1432 10.1038/ncomms2401
33. 2/Ni Coatings J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 19618-19624 10.1021/jp506133y
34. 4 Thin Film Photoanodes Modified with Cobalt Phosphate Catalyst and W-Doping ChemCatChem 2013, 5, 490-496 10.1002/cctc.201200472
35. 4 Photoanodes J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 9398-9404 10.1021/jp3007552
36. 2 Composite Electrodes J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 3948-3953 10.1039/c3ta15268e
37. Abdi, F. F.; Han, L. H.; Smets, A. H. M.; Zeman, M.; Dam, B.; van de Krol, R. Efficient Solar Water Splitting by Enhanced Charge Separation in a Bismuth Vanadate-Silicon Tandem Photoelectrode Nat. Commun. 2013, 4, 2195 10.1038/ncomms3195
38. 3 Multi-Composite in a Carbonate Electrolyte Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 3833-3835 10.1039/c2cc30713h
39. 5+ Sites with Higher Valence Metal Ions Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 1006-1013 10.1039/C2CP43408C
40. 4 Photoanodes with Dual-Layer Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Solar Water Splitting Science 2014, 343, 990-994 10.1126/science.1246913