The synergistic effect of surface and bulk O vacancies in a WO<sub>3</sub> photoanode to advance carrier separation and light harvesting for photoelectrochemical water splitting-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The synergistic effect of surface and bulk O vacancies in a WO₃ photoanode to advance carrier separation and light harvesting for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Published:2022 Issue:16 Volume:51 Page:6454-6463
ISSN:1477-9226
Container-title:Dalton Transactions
language:en
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Author:

Zhao Quanyou¹²,Hao Zhichao¹²,Meng Yue³,Liu Zhifeng¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, 300384, Tianjin, China

2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Building Green Functional Materials, 300384, Tianjin, China

3. Department of Life Science and Health, School of Science and Engineering, Huzhou College, 313000, Huzhou, China

Abstract

We firstly revealed the respective roles and collaboratively effect of bulk and surface O vacancies (D-WO3−x) in WO3. The surface and bulk O vacancies leave active sites for reducing barriers and act as electron traps centers for promoting carrier separation.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Inorganic Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/DT/D2DT00383J

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