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

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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 (\({\rm{S}}{{\rm{O}}_4}^{2 - }\)) 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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Acknowledgements

“National Science Council” and “National Dong Hwa University” supported this research under contract MOST 111-2221-E-259-004-MY3. This work was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Nos. 22109096, WF220528005 and ZXDF280001/024). The authors further acknowledge the technical support from Precision Analysis and Material Research Center, “National Taipei University of Technology” for the structural characterization of Bi2S3/ZnO NRs by means of X-ray diffraction.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, “National Taipei University of Technology”, No. 1, Sec.3, Zhong-**ao E. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City, 10608, Taiwan, China

    Ying-Chu Chen

  2. Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, “National Dong Hwa University”, No. 1, Sec. 2, Da Hsueh Road, Shoufeng, Hualien, 97401, Taiwan, China

    Hsiang-Yu Jui, Yun-Hsiang Lu & Yu-Kuei Hsu

  3. China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 3, Yinlian Road, Lingang, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Yichen Feng

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

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Chen, YC., Jui, HY., Feng, Y. et al. High-performance Bi2S3/ZnO photoanode enabled by interfacial engineering with oxyanion for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nano Res. 17, 5996–6005 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6653-y

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