Issue 1, 2020

Bi3TaO7 film: a promising photoelectrode for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Abstract

Most of the transition metal bismuth salts have excellent visible absorption range and carrier transport properties due to their unique structure capable of orbits and s–p bonds. As one of the transition metal bismuth salts, Bi3TaO7 is firstly directly prepared on fluorine-doped SnO2 transparent conductive glass (FTO) as a photoanode for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation via a simple hydrothermal method using a special precursor solution. The growth mechanism of the Bi3TaO7 film is investigated in detail. Besides, the Bi3TaO7 photoanode exhibits a wide visible light response range with an optical band gap of 2.88 eV, which is useful for its PEC properties. Bi3TaO7 achieves an excellent PEC performance by tuning the calcination temperature, producing a photocurrent density of 23.0 μA cm−2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE and showing excellent stability that decays by only 2% after illumination for 6000 s. The above results indicate that Bi3TaO7 has broad application prospects in the field of PEC water oxidation.

Graphical abstract: Bi3TaO7 film: a promising photoelectrode for photoelectrochemical water splitting

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Oct 2019
Accepted
23 Nov 2019
First published
25 Nov 2019

Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 147-155

Bi3TaO7 film: a promising photoelectrode for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Q. Song, P. Wu, S. Sarkar, Y. Zhao and Z. Liu, Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 147 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03953H

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