Direct water splitting under visible light with nanostructured hematite and WO3 photoanodes and a GaInP2 photocathode外文学习材料.pdfVIP

Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 155 5 F91-F96 2008 F91 0013-4651/2008/1555/F91/6/$23.00 © The Electrochemical Society Direct Water Splitting under Visible Light with Nanostructured Hematite and WO3 Photoanodes and a GaInP2 Photocathode Heli Wang,*,z Todd Deutsch,** and John A. Turner* National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA A p-GaInP2 photocathode was paired with nanostructured hematite and tungsten trioxide photoanodes to investigate the utility of these systems for direct water splitting under visible light illumination. For the hematite system, under illumination at open-circuit conditions, the potential of hematite shifts cathodically and that of the GaInP2 shifts anodically. Under short-circuit condition and visible light illumination, the combination of the two photoelectrodes can split water, though with a very low rate of a few A/cm2 2 even at an intensity of 1 W/cm . It was determined that the very low photocurrent from the hematite nanorod photoelectrode limits the short-circuit current of the two-photoelectrode combination. Similar potential shifts were observed with the nanostruc- tured WO 2 3/GaInP2 combination. However, at light intensities bel