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Citation: Tian-Ming WANG, Yan-Xin CHEN, Mei-Hong TONG, Shi-Wei LIN, Jing-Wen ZHOU, Xia JIANG, Can-Zhong LU. Self-organized TiO2 Nanotube Arrays with Controllable Geometric Parameters for Highly Efficient PEC Water Splitting[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2022, 41(2): 220215. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-3280 shu

Self-organized TiO2 Nanotube Arrays with Controllable Geometric Parameters for Highly Efficient PEC Water Splitting

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    CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

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    College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China

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    Xiamen Institute of Rare-earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China

  • Corresponding author: Yan-Xin CHEN, yanxinchen@fjirsm.ac.cn Can-Zhong LU, czlu@fjirsm.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 7 June 2021
    Accepted Date: 26 October 2021

    Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21805280Youth Innovation Foundation of Xiamen City 3502Z20206085Opening Project of PCOSS, Xiamen University 201907the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB20000000the Key Program of Frontier Science, CAS QYZDJ-SSW-SLH033the Xiamen Science and Technology Program Project 3502Z20203085the grant from FJIRSM CXZX-2017-T04

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  • In this report, a series of self-organized TiO2 nanotube arrays were prepared by anodization of titanium foil in mixed electrolytes composed of water, ethylene glycol, and NH4F. Their photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance as a photoanode was characterized by the PEC water-splitting hydrogen (H2) generation reaction. The internal relationship between the TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNTAs) morphology and their PEC performance was thoroughly investigated. Our results show that when the etching time is 10 hours, the length of the as-prepared TNTAs is about 20.78 μm and the measured photocurrent density is around 1.25 mA·cm-2 with applied bias voltage 0.6 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) under simulated sunlight irradiation, which is 976 times higher than that of the TiO2 substrate without nanotubes architecture (0.00128 mA⋅cm-2). More interestingly, the results of the IPCE measurement show that the band-gap of the as-prepared TNTAs is reduced from 3.20 to 2.83 eV. The corresponding optical response limit is also extended from 400 nm to TiO2 nanotube arrays is 510 nm, which indicates that the increasement of the TNTAs PEC performance benefits from the great improvement of its utilization of both the UV and visible light irradiation.
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