Creation and Plasmon-Assisted Photosensitization of Annealed Z-Schemes for Sunlight-Only Water Splitting.

ABSTRACT: Solely light-induced water splitting represents a promising avenue for a carbon-free energy future, based on reliable energy sources. Such processes can be performed using coupled semiconductor materials (the so-called direct Z-scheme design) that facilitate spatial separation of (photo)excited electrons and holes, prevent their recombination, and allow water-splitting half-reactions proceeding at each corresponding semiconductor side. In this work, we proposed and prepared a specific structure, based on WO_3g-x/CdWO₄/CdS coupled semiconductors, created by annealing of a common WO₃/CdS direct Z-scheme. WO_3-x/CdWO₄/CdS flakes were further combined with a plasmon-active grating for the creation of the so-called artificial le

SUBMITTER: Zabelin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288442 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature