Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 2520-2525

Journal: ACS Applied Energy Materials

Volume number: 1

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 2574-0962

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00265

Publisher: American Chemical Society

Abstract: 
Controlled heterojunction design was combined with diameter-tailored electrospinning to prepare mesostructured photocatalysts, leading to strongly enhanced photocatalytic water splitting rates. The (111)-layered perovskite Ba5Ta4O15 in heterojunction with Ba3Ta5O15 was for the first time prepared as nanofibers by means of electrospinning, including variation of the fiber diameter. The result is a tailored mesostructured heterojunction leading to hydrogen evolution rates from water/methanol mixtures of up to 4.4 mmol h(-1) without cocatalyst, and remarkable water splitting activity after Rh-Cr2O3 decoration with hydrogen production rates up to one mmol h(-1). Our studies also confirm the photocurrent doubling effect of sacrificial alcohols exhibiting alpha-H atoms with this heterojunction, in contrast to tert-butanol.

Harvard Citation style: Bloesser, A. and Marschall, R. (2018) Layered Perovskite Nanofiber Heterojunctions with Tailored Diameter to Enhance Photocatalytic Water Splitting Performance, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 1(6), pp. 2520-2525. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00265

APA Citation style: Bloesser, A., & Marschall, R. (2018). Layered Perovskite Nanofiber Heterojunctions with Tailored Diameter to Enhance Photocatalytic Water Splitting Performance. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(6), 2520-2525. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00265