Citation: Kai ZHU, Yuan LIANG, Hua-Chun LAN, Xiao-Qiang AN, Jian-Qiao LIU. Self-driven water purification and simultaneous hydrogen generation by all-nanowire photocatalytic fuel cell with enhanced mass and electron transfer[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(7): 1429-1439. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2023.090 shu

Self-driven water purification and simultaneous hydrogen generation by all-nanowire photocatalytic fuel cell with enhanced mass and electron transfer

Kai ZHU ^{1, 2} ,
Yuan LIANG ¹ ,
Hua-Chun LAN ² ,
Xiao-Qiang AN ^2,, ,
Jian-Qiao LIU ³

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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, China
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Center for Water and Ecology, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Corresponding author: Xiao-Qiang AN, xqan@tsinghua.edu.cn
Received Date: 24 October 2022
Revised Date: 11 May 2023

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This paper constructed an all-nanowire photocatalytic fuel cell with enhanced mass and electron transfer by integrating TiO₂ nanowire array photoanodes on three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical carbon cloth and platinized Si nanowire array photocathodes. Under light illumination, the potholes generated at the microfluidic photoanodes effectively oxidize various harmful contaminants, which significantly enhanced the reduction of water by photoelectrons for hydrogen gas production. Compared with conventional planar photoelectrodes, the all-nanowire photocatalytic fuel cell can efficiently degrade simulated dye wastewater and simultaneously generate hydrogen new energy without requiring an external bias voltage.
- photocatalytic fuel cell,
- nanowire,
- photoelectrochemical,
- hydrogen generation,
- charge transfer,
- mass transfer
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