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Research Article

High-performance Bi2S3/ZnO photoanode enabled by interfacial engineering with oxyanion for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation

Ying-Chu Chen1, Hsiang-Yu Jui2, Yichen Feng3, Yu-Kuei Hsu2( ), Yun-Hsiang Lu2
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, "National Taipei University of Technology", No. 1, Sec.3, Zhong-Xiao E. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 10608, Taiwan, China
Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, "National Dong Hwa University", No. 1, Sec. 2, Da Hsueh Road, Shoufeng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan, China
China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 3, Yinlian Road, Lingang, Shanghai 201306, China
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The synergistic effect of SO42– as a second binding site for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) intermediates and modifier of the electronic structure of Bi2S3 renders its photocurrent density achieving 8.61 mA·cm–2, which is among the highest performance reported to date.

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In the present contribution, we demonstrate that the sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) over the bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3) photoanode, which severely restricts its photoelectrochemical activity, is markedly accelerated by employing a sulfate-containing electrolyte. First-principle calculation points to the spontaneous adsorption of sulfate (SO42−) on Bi2S3 and its capacity of stabilizing the OER intermediates through hydrogen bonding, which is further reinforced by increasing the local density of states near the Fermi level of Bi2S3. Meanwhile, the electron transfer is also promoted to synergistically render the rate-determining step (from O* to OOH*) of OER over Bi2S3 kinetically facile. Last but not least, benefitting from such enhanced OER activity and efficient charge separation resulted from depositing Bi2S3 on the zinc oxide nanorods (ZnO NRs), forming a core–shell heterojunction, its photocurrent density achieves 8.61 mA·cm−2 at 1.23 VRHE, far surpassing those reported for additional Bi2S3-based and several state-of-the-art photoanodes in the literature and further exceeding their theoretical limit. The great promise of the Bi2S3/ZnO NRs is in view of such outperformance, the superior Faradaic yield of oxygen of more than ~ 80% and the outstanding half-cell applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of ~ 1% well corroborated.

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photoelectrochemical water oxidationoxyanion adsorptionelectronic structure regulationoxygen evolution reaction (OER) intermediates stabilizationBi2S3

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 7,
July 2024
Pages 5996-6005
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-024-6653-y
Cite this article:
Chen Y-C, Jui H-Y, Feng Y, et al. High-performance Bi2S3/ZnO photoanode enabled by interfacial engineering with oxyanion for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nano Research, 2024, 17(7): 5996-6005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6653-y
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Accepted: 24 March 2024
Published: 19 April 2024
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