Interfacial oxygen vacancies yielding long-lived holes in hematite mesocrystal-based photoanodes

The performance of hematite (α-Fe2O3) photoanodes is limited by fast charge recombination. Here, authors develop hematite mesocrystal-based photoanodes with abundant interfacial oxygen vacancies for highly efficient solar water splitting under back illumination.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhujun Zhang, Izuru Karimata, Hiroki Nagashima, Shunsuke Muto, Koji Ohara, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Takashi Tachikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12581-z