Plasmonic nanometal decorated photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting
| Autor: | Duvvuri Suryakala, Bhagatram Meena, Melepurath Deepa, Palyam Subramanyam, Challapalli Subrahmanyam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Materials science
Hydrogen Composite number Nanoparticle chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry engineering.material 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Catalysis 0104 chemical sciences Chemical engineering chemistry engineering Water splitting Noble metal 0210 nano-technology Ternary operation Plasmon |
| Zdroj: | Catalysis Today. 379:1-6 |
| ISSN: | 0920-5861 |
| Popis: | Plasmonic metal nanoparticles containing photoanodes are known to exhibit stable photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance due to their optical and electronic properties. In this work, we report the application of plasmonic Bi nanoparticles supported over a g-C3N4/Bi2S3 photoanode for PEC water splitting. Typical results indicated that g-C3N4/Bi2S3/BiNPs ternary composite photoanode showed a high photo-current density of 7.11 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V under solar irradiation, which was ∼ 5 and 10 times higher than g-C3N4/Bi2S3 and g-C3N4 photoanodes, respectively. Further, the composite electrode also demonstrated superior solar to hydrogen efficiency and long-term stability. It was concluded that Bi nanoparticles play a major role in enhancing the PEC performance for hydrogen evolution reaction. Thus, g-C3N4/Bi2S3/BiNPs has superior PEC performance and proved to work as an alternative to noble metal based photo-electrodes for solar-water splitting reactions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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