
Article Title
Spontaneous photoelectric field-enhancement effect prompts the low cost hierarchical growth of highly ordered heteronanostructures for solar water splitting
Keywords
bismuth vanadate, co-catalysts, photocatalysis, solar water splitting, oxygen evolution
Abstract
In this study, a potentially universal new strategy is reported for the large-scale, low-cost fabrication of visible-light-active highly ordered heteronanostructures based on the spontaneous photoelectric-field-enhancement effect inherent in pyramidal morphology. The hierarchical vertically oriented arrayed structures comprise an active molecular co-catalyst at the apex of a visible-light-active large band gap semiconductor for low-cost solar water splitting in a neutral aqueous medium without the use of a sacrificial agent.
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Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
Yankuan Wei,Jinzhan Su,Xiaokang Wan,Liejin Guo,Lionel Vayssieres, Spontaneous photoelectric field-enhancement effect prompts the low cost hierarchical growth of highly ordered heteronanostructures for solar water splitting. NanoRes.2016, 9(6): 1561–1569