ZnO/CuO/M (M = Ag, Au) Hierarchical Nanostructure by Successive Photoreduction Process for Solar Hydrogen Generationopen access
- Authors
- Kwon, Jinhyeong; Cho, Hyunmin; Jung, Jinwook; Lee, Habeom; Hong, Sukjoon; Yeo, Junyeob; Han, Seungyong; Ko, Seung Hwan
- Issue Date
- May-2018
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- hierarchical nanostructure; photochemical; solar water splitting; photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell; surface plasmon
- Citation
- NANOMATERIALS, v.8, no.5, pp.1 - 9
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NANOMATERIALS
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 9
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/6285
- DOI
- 10.3390/nano8050323
- ISSN
- 2079-4991
- Abstract
- To date, solar energy generation devices have been widely studied to meet a clean and sustainable energy source. Among them, water splitting photoelectrochemical cell is regarded as a promising energy generation way for splitting water molecules and generating hydrogen by sunlight. While many nanostructured metal oxides are considered as a candidate, most of them have an improper bandgap structure lowering energy transition efficiency. Herein, we introduce a novel wet-based, successive photoreduction process that can improve charge transfer efficiency by surface plasmon effect for a solar-driven water splitting device. The proposed process enables to fabricate ZnO/CuO/Ag or ZnO/CuO/Au hierarchical nanostructure, having an enhanced electrical, optical, photoelectrochemical property. The fabricated hierarchical nanostructures are demonstrated as a photocathode in the photoelectrochemical cell and characterized by using various analytic tools.
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