Earth-abundant photoelectrodes for water splitting and alternate oxidation reactions: Recent advances and future perspectives. (April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Suryawanshi, Mahesh P.; Ghorpade, Uma V.; Toe, Cui Ying; Suryawanshi, Umesh P.; He, Mingrui; Zhang, Doudou; Jang, Jun Sung; Shin, Seung Wook; Kim, Jin Hyeok; Hao, Xiaojing; Amal, Rose
• Is Part Of: Progress in materials science. Volume 134(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-04
• Subjects: Clean hydrogen production -- Solar water splitting -- Alternate oxidation reactions -- Value-added chemicals products -- Energy conversion -- Earth-abundant materials -- Nanomaterials -- Photocathode -- Photoanode -- Computational screenings; PEC photoelectrochemical -- H2 hydrogen -- PV photovoltaic -- STH solar-to-hydrogen -- Eg band gap -- O2 oxygen -- RHE reversible hydrogen electrode -- OER oxygen evolution reaction -- HER hydrogen evolution reaction -- HMF hydroxymethylfurfural -- DFT density functional theory -- VBM valence band maximum -- EVBM valence band maximum * energy -- MGI Materials Genome Initiative -- OQMD Open Quantum Materials Database -- PBE Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof -- SC solids correlation -- DOS density of states -- Si silicon -- AI artificial intelligence -- ML machine learning -- CB conduction band -- NHE normal hydrogen electrode -- VB valance band -- ETL electron transfer layer -- HTL hole transfer layer -- LDH layered double hydroxide -- IPCE incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency -- ABPE applied bias photon-to-current efficiencies -- HC-STH half cel solar-to-hydrogen efficiency -- CBO conduction band offset -- g-C3N4 graphitic-C3N4 -- Cu:NiO Cu-doped NiO -- STEM scanning transmission electron microscopy -- AM air mass -- IO inverse opal -- SHE standard hydrogen electrode -- ALD atomic layer deposition -- CZTSSe Cu2ZnSn(Sx, Se1-x)4 -- CCZTS Cd substitution in CZTS -- CZGTS Ge substitution in CZTS -- ACZTS Ag substituted CZTS -- CBTSSe Cu2BaSn(S, Se)4 -- VBO valence band offset -- EIS electrochemical impedance Spectroscopy -- IMPS intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy -- NP nanopillar -- MW microwire -- a-Si amorphous silicon -- OECs oxygen evolution catalysts -- STO TiO2-SrTiO3 -- MOCVD metal organic chemical vapor deposition -- rGO reduced graphene oxide -- PED photo-assisted electrodeposition -- Vo oxygen vacancies -- Vo-Co3O4 Co3O4 cocatalyst with Vo -- CP conducting polymer -- N-TiO2 N-doping in TiO2 -- α-Fe2O3 Hematite -- M:B-Fe2O3 metal-doped Fe2O3 -- FeOOH iron oxyhydroxides -- NFs nanofibers -- NTs nanotubes -- AAO anodized aluminum oxide -- HMA hybrid microwave annealing -- Co-HAO Co-incorporated hydroxyapatite -- MOD metal-organic decomposition -- BiOI bismuth oxyiodide -- BL-BVO BiVO4 with twin structure -- S sulphur -- LA laser ablation -- r-BVO BiVO4 photoanodes with randomly oriented grains -- In:BiVO4 In3+-doped BiVO4 -- Zn:BVO Zn-doped BiVO4 -- Mo:BVO Mo-doped BiVO4 -- mid-IR TA midinfrared transient absorption -- MDH mixed double hydroxide -- TEM transmission electron microscopy -- LSV linear voltammograms -- NC nanocrystals -- TA tannic acid -- b-BiVO4@a-TiO2-x BiVO4 as core and amorphous TiO2-x as shell -- TANF Tannic acid and NiFe ions -- BP Black Phosphor -- MOF Metal-organic frameworks -- GO/CuTCPP Graphene oxide and Cu porphyria -- FE-SEM field emission scanning electron microscopy -- DHA dihydroxyacetone -- FTIR Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy -- HPLC high-performance liquid chromatography -- FDCA furandicarboxylic acid -- TEMPO tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxy -- HMFCA hydroxymethyl-2-furan-carboxylic acid -- DFF diformylfuran -- FFCA formyl-5-furancarboxylic acid -- P-doped (ZnxCd1-x)S P-doped zinc cadmium sulfide -- G@U-LDH@BVO graphene/ultrathin-CoAl LDH /BiVO4 -- PW9Co cobalt-polyoxometalate -- SnO2@BiVO4/Co-Pi Co-Pi loaded on 1D SnO2@BiVO4 core-shell structure -- PC photocatalyst -- PEC-PV Photoelectrochemical cell stacked on photovoltaic -- OCV ordered vacancy compound -- LSPR excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance -- TM transition-metal -- NR nanorod -- NT nanotube -- CQD carbon quantum dots -- S-TNR S doped TiO2 nanorod arrays -- GLLB Gritsenko van Leeuwen van Lenthe and Baerends; Materials science -- Periodicals; Science des matériaux -- Périodiques; 620.1105
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2023.101073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0079-6425

Abstract

Abstract: Solar water splitting by means of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells offers the promise to produce cost-effective renewable and clean fuel from abundant sunlight and water. Lately, the realization of promise of concurrent hydrogen (H2 ) production along with alternate oxidation reaction (which is less energetically demanding than the water oxidation reaction) has also become a subject of intense global research interests. At present, developing inexpensive, non-toxic, and earth-abundant semiconductor-based photoelectrodes ( i.e. photocathode and photoanode) with a high stability is of great importance in achieving economically viable H2 production and value-added chemicals. This review summarizes recent advances in these photoelectrodes along with contemporary understanding of key factors responsible for high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency, device stability, and highlights a promising new research trend of alternate oxidation reactions at photoanodes. First, we outline recent developments of novel photoelectrode materials using high-throughput computational screening integrated with ab-initio calculations. We proceed to discuss the merits and major challenges of these novel and existing photoelectrodes and links the strategies used to overcome these challenges to achieve economically viable solar H2 generation. Several important studies on the emerging new trend of alternate oxidations reactions at photoanodes toward value-added chemicals are then detailed with particular emphasis is placed on dependency of photoanode design on type of organic feedstocks and desired products from the oxidation reaction. We also emphasize the development of tandem devices for overall water splitting using these photoelectrodes with high onset potentials. Finally, we provide not only promising future directions for each material system, but also a critical assessment and outlook on how these earth-abundant photoelectrodes could lead to a potential large-scale implementation of water splitting devices.