Surface-modified, dye-sensitized niobate nanosheets enabling an efficient solar-driven Z-scheme for overall water splitting

Nishioka, Shunta; Hojo, Koya; Xiao, Langqiu; Gao, Tianyue; Miseki, Yugo; Yasuda, Shuhei; Yokoi, Toshiyuki; Sayama, Kazuhiro; Mallouk, Thomas E.; Maeda, Kazuhiko

doi:10.1126/sciadv.adc9115

Title: Surface-modified, dye-sensitized niobate nanosheets enabling an efficient solar-driven Z-scheme for overall water splitting

Journal Article · Wed Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adc9115· OSTI ID:1904316

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Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (Japan)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan)

While dye-sensitized metal oxides are good candidates as H₂evolution photocatalysts for solar-driven Z-scheme water splitting, their solar-to-hydrogen (STH) energy conversion efficiencies remain low because of uncontrolled charge recombination reactions. Here, we show that modification of Ru dye–sensitized, Pt-intercalated HCa₂Nb₃O₁₀nanosheets (Ru/Pt/HCa₂Nb₃O₁₀) with both amorphous Al₂O₃and poly(styrenesulfonate) (PSS) improves the STH efficiency of Z-scheme overall water splitting by a factor of ~100, when the nanosheets are used in combination with a WO₃-based O₂evolution photocatalyst and an I₃^-/I^-redox mediator, relative to an analogous system that uses unmodified Ru/Pt/HCa₂Nb₃O₁₀. By using the optimized photocatalyst, PSS/Ru/Al₂O₃/Pt/HCa₂Nb₃O₁₀, a maximum STH of 0.12% and an apparent quantum yield of 4.1% at 420 nm were obtained, by far the highest among dye-sensitized water splitting systems and comparable to conventional semiconductor-based suspended particulate photocatalyst systems.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019781; JP19H02511; JP22H01862; JP22H05148; JP21K20555

OSTI ID:: 1904316

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 8, Issue 32; ISSN 2375-2548

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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