Discovery of Fe–Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni–Fe–Co–Ce Oxide Coatings
Abstract
An efficient photoanode is a prerequisite for a viable solar fuels technology. The challenges to realizing an efficient photoanode include the integration of a semiconductor light absorber and a metal oxide electrocatalyst to optimize corrosion protection, light trapping, hole transport, and photocarrier recombination sites. To efficiently explore metal oxide coatings, we employ a high-throughput methodology wherein a uniform BiVO 4 film is coated with 858 unique metal oxide coatings covering a range of metal oxide loadings and the full (Ni-Fe-Co-Ce)O x pseudoquaternary composition space. Photoelectrochemical characterization of the photoanodes reveals that specific combinations of metal oxide composition and loading provide up to a 13-fold increase in the maximum photoelectrochemical power generation for oxygen evolution in pH 13 electrolyte. Through mining of the high-throughput data we identify composition regions that form improved interfaces with BiVO 4 . Of particular note, integrated photoanodes with catalyst compositions in the range Fe (0.4-0.6) Ce (0.6-0.4) O x exhibit high interface quality and excellent photoelectrochemical power conversion. Scaled-up inkjet-printed electrodes and photoanodic electrodeposition of this composition on BiVO 4 confirms the discovery and the synthesis-independent interface improvement of (Fe-Ce)O x coatings on BiVO 4.
- Authors:
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and Chemical Sciences Division
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1333887
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1454487
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0004993; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 14 SOLAR ENERGY; high-throughput experimentation; materials integration; oxygen evolution reaction; photoanode; solar fuels
Citation Formats
Shinde, Aniketa, Guevarra, Dan, Liu, Guiji, Sharp, Ian D., Toma, Francesca M., Gregoire, John M., and Haber, Joel A. Discovery of Fe–Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni–Fe–Co–Ce Oxide Coatings. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.6b06714.
Shinde, Aniketa, Guevarra, Dan, Liu, Guiji, Sharp, Ian D., Toma, Francesca M., Gregoire, John M., & Haber, Joel A. Discovery of Fe–Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni–Fe–Co–Ce Oxide Coatings. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b06714
Shinde, Aniketa, Guevarra, Dan, Liu, Guiji, Sharp, Ian D., Toma, Francesca M., Gregoire, John M., and Haber, Joel A. Tue .
"Discovery of Fe–Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni–Fe–Co–Ce Oxide Coatings". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b06714. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1333887.
@article{osti_1333887,
title = {Discovery of Fe–Ce Oxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes through Combinatorial Exploration of Ni–Fe–Co–Ce Oxide Coatings},
author = {Shinde, Aniketa and Guevarra, Dan and Liu, Guiji and Sharp, Ian D. and Toma, Francesca M. and Gregoire, John M. and Haber, Joel A.},
abstractNote = {An efficient photoanode is a prerequisite for a viable solar fuels technology. The challenges to realizing an efficient photoanode include the integration of a semiconductor light absorber and a metal oxide electrocatalyst to optimize corrosion protection, light trapping, hole transport, and photocarrier recombination sites. To efficiently explore metal oxide coatings, we employ a high-throughput methodology wherein a uniform BiVO 4 film is coated with 858 unique metal oxide coatings covering a range of metal oxide loadings and the full (Ni-Fe-Co-Ce)O x pseudoquaternary composition space. Photoelectrochemical characterization of the photoanodes reveals that specific combinations of metal oxide composition and loading provide up to a 13-fold increase in the maximum photoelectrochemical power generation for oxygen evolution in pH 13 electrolyte. Through mining of the high-throughput data we identify composition regions that form improved interfaces with BiVO 4 . Of particular note, integrated photoanodes with catalyst compositions in the range Fe (0.4-0.6) Ce (0.6-0.4) O x exhibit high interface quality and excellent photoelectrochemical power conversion. Scaled-up inkjet-printed electrodes and photoanodic electrodeposition of this composition on BiVO 4 confirms the discovery and the synthesis-independent interface improvement of (Fe-Ce)O x coatings on BiVO 4.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.6b06714},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 36,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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