Template-free nanostructured fluorine-doped tin oxide scaffolds for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Ivan Garcia-Torregrosa; Jochem H.J.  Wijten; Silvia Zanoni; Freddy Oropeza Palacio; Jan Philipp Hofmann; Emiel Hensen; Bert M. Weckhuysen

doi:10.1021/acsami.9b05176

Template-free nanostructured fluorine-doped tin oxide scaffolds for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Ivan Garcia-Torregrosa, Jochem H.J. Wijten, Silvia Zanoni, Freddy Oropeza Palacio, Jan Philipp Hofmann, Emiel Hensen, Bert M. Weckhuysen (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The synthesis and characterization of highly stable and conductive F:SnO ₂ (FTO) nanopyramid arrays are investigated, and their use as scaffolds for water splitting is demonstrated. Current densities during the oxygen evolution reaction with a NiFeO _x catalyst at 2 V vs reversible hydrogen electrode were increased 5-fold when substituting commercial FTO (TEC 15) by nanostructured FTO scaffolds. In addition, thin α-Fe ₂O ₃ films (∼50 nm thick) were employed as a proof of concept to show the effect of our nanostructured scaffolds during photoelectrochemical water splitting. Double-layer capacitance measurements showed a drastic increase of the relative electrochemically active surface area for the nanostructured samples, in agreement with the observed photocurrent enhancement, whereas UV-vis spectroscopy indicates full absorption of visible light at wavelengths below 600 nm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36485-36496
Number of pages	12
Journal	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume	11
Issue number	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b05176
Publication status	Published - 9 Oct 2019

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nanostructuring
photoelectrode
spectroscopy
spray pyrolysis
water splitting

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Template-free nanostructured fluorine-doped tin oxide scaffolds for photoelectrochemical water splitting

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