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Citation: Meng-Meng FAN, Xiao-Jiang WEN, Zi-Yang TAO, Qiang ZHAO, Jin-Ping LI, Guang LIU. Construction and photoelectrochemical water oxidation performance of BiVO4/ZnFe2O4 homotypic heterojunction photoanode[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(1): 23-31. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2022.257 shu

Construction and photoelectrochemical water oxidation performance of BiVO4/ZnFe2O4 homotypic heterojunction photoanode

  • Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

  • Corresponding author: Guang LIU, liuguang@tyut.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 27 May 2022
    Revised Date: 21 October 2022

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  • The combination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs is considered one of the important reasons for limiting the photoelectrocatalytic conversion efficiency of BiVO4 photoanode. In this work, BiVO4/ZnFe2O4 homotypic heterojunction was constructed by a simple hydrothermal method and calcination process. The obtained BiVO4/ ZnFe2O4 photoanode achieved an excellent photocurrent density of 3.33 mA·cm-2 at 1.23 V (vs RHE), which was 2 times higher than that of pure BiVO4 (1.20 mA·cm-2). Related structure and performance tests showed that BiVO4 and ZnFe2O4 can form a bandgap staggered n-n heterojunction, which enables the photogenerated carriers to be effectively separated and participate in the water oxidation process, thus improving the photoelectrochemical water oxidation activities of BiVO4 photoanode.
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