Volume 176, 2014

A facile two-step method for fabrication of plate-like WO3 photoanode under mild conditions

Abstract

Fabrication of photoelectrodes on a large-scale, with low-cost and high efficiency is a challenge for their practical application in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. In this work, a typical plate-like WO3 photoanode was fabricated with chemical etching of the as-prepared mixed tungsten–metal oxides (W–M–O, M = Cu, Zn or Al) by a reactive magnetron co-sputtering technique, which results in a greatly enhanced PEC performance for water oxidation in comparison with that obtained from a conventional magnetron sputtering method. The current approach is applicable for the fabrication of some other semiconductor photoelectrodes and is promising for the scaling up of applications for highly efficient solar energy conversion systems.

Associated articles

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jun 2014
Accepted
14 Jul 2014
First published
14 Jul 2014

Faraday Discuss., 2014,176, 185-197

Author version available

A facile two-step method for fabrication of plate-like WO3 photoanode under mild conditions

N. Wang, J. Zhu, X. Zheng, F. Xiong, B. Huang, J. Shi and C. Li, Faraday Discuss., 2014, 176, 185 DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00139G

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements