Mo-doped BiVO4 nanotextured pillars as efficient photoanodes for solar water splitting

Min Woo Kim; Karam Kim; Tae Yoon Ohm; Bhavana Joshi; Edmund Samuel; Mark T. Swihart; Hyun Yoon; Hyunwoong Park; Sam S. Yoon

doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.07.260

Mo-doped BiVO₄ nanotextured pillars as efficient photoanodes for solar water splitting

Min Woo Kim
, Karam Kim
, Tae Yoon Ohm
, Bhavana Joshi
, Edmund Samuel
, Mark T. Swihart
, Hyun Yoon
, Hyunwoong Park
, Sam S. Yoon

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Abstract

We present electrospray-deposited nanotextured Mo-doped BiVO₄ pillars with improved photoelectrochemical water splitting performance. The three-dimensional nanotextured Mo-BiVO₄ pillars exhibit large interstitial spaces, which result in a high photocurrent. The doping of Mo at the optimal concentration (0.15%) results in a two-fold increase in the photocurrent density (PCD) (1.78 mA·cm⁻² at 1.2 V versus Ag/AgCl) over that of pristine BiVO₄. We attribute this increase in the PCD to increases in recombination time and in donor (electron) concentration owing to the doping with hexavalent Mo, as confirmed by Bode phase and Mott-Schottky analyses, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1138-1146
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume	726
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.07.260
State	Published - 5 Dec 2017

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Keywords

Bismuth vanadate
Nanotextured-pillar
Photoanode
Photocurrent density
Water splitting

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