纳米孔
光电流
纤锌矿晶体结构
分解水
光电化学
异质结
纳米棒
材料科学
带隙
载流子
纳米复合材料
化学工程
纳米技术
电化学
化学
电极
光催化
锌
光电子学
有机化学
催化作用
物理化学
冶金
工程类
作者
Sauvik Chatterjee,Piyali Bhanja,Dibyendu Ghosh,Praveen Kumar,Sabuj Kanti Das,Sasanka Dalapati,Asim Bhaumik
出处
期刊:Chemsuschem
[Wiley]
日期:2020-10-14
卷期号:14 (1): 408-416
被引量:48
标识
DOI:10.1002/cssc.202002136
摘要
Abstract Photoelectrochemical water‐splitting offers unique opportunity in the utilization of abundant solar light energy and water resources to produce hydrogen (renewable energy) and oxygen (clean environment) in the presence of a semiconductor photoanode. Zinc oxide (ZnO), a wide bandgap semiconductor is found to crystallize predominantly in the hexagonal wurtzite phase. Herein, we first report a new crystalline triclinic phase of ZnO by using N‐rich antidiabetic drug metformin as a template via hydrothermal synthesis with self‐assembled nanorod‐like particle morphology. We have fabricated a heterojunction nanocomposite charge carrier photoanode by coupling this porous ZnO with a covalent organic framework, which displayed highly enhanced photocurrent density of 0.62 mA/cm 2 at 0.2 V vs. RHE in photoelectrochemical water oxidation and excellent photon‐to‐current conversion efficiency at near‐neutral pH vis‐à‐vis bulk ZnO. This enhancement of the photocurrent for the porous ZnO/COF nanocomposite material over the corresponding bulk ZnO could be attributed to the visible light energy absorption by COF and subsequent efficient charge‐carrier mobility via porous ZnO surface.
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