Highly active deficient ternary sulfide photoanode for photoelectrochemical water splitting.

ABSTRACT: The exploration of photoanode materials with high efficiency and stability is the eternal pursuit for the realization of practically solar-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Here we develop a deficient ternary metal sulfide (CdIn₂S₄) photoanode, and its PEC performance is significantly enhanced by introducing surface sulfur vacancies, achieving a photocurrent density of 5.73 mA cm^-2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE and 1 Sun with an applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of 2.49% at 0.477 V vs. RHE. The experimental characterizations and theoretical calculations highlight the enhanced effect of surface sulfur vacancies on the interfacial charge separation and transfer kinetics, which also demonstrate the restrained surface states distribution and the tr

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299993 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature