Photoelectrochemical properties of nanostructured tungsten trioxide films

被引:432
作者
Santato, C [1 ]
Ulmann, M [1 ]
Augustynski, J [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, Dept Chem, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B | 2001年 / 105卷 / 05期
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10.1021/jp002232q
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The photoelectrochemical characteristics of highly transparent nanoporoys WO3 films are described. The photocurrent versus excitation wavelength spectra of these photoelectrodes exhibit a maximum close to 400 nm and a significant photoresponse to the blue part of the visible spectrum. The observed conversion efficiencies attain 75% for the photogeneration of oxygen from 1 M aq HClO4 and reach 190% in the presence of methanol in the solution, denoting in the latter case the occurrence of a perfect photocurrent doubling. Experiments conducted under simulated solar AM 1.5 illumination resulted in steady-state anodic photocurrents of the order of several mA/cm(2).
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