Understanding the role of nickel–iron (oxy)hydroxide (NiFeOOH) electrocatalysts on hematite photoanodes

Author(s):  
Jihye Lee ◽  
Daye Seo ◽  
Sunghwan Won ◽  
Taek Dong Chung

A NiFeOOH electrocatalyst prepared by photo-assisted anodic deposition on hematite performs a dual function: increasing the water oxidation kinetics and suppressing surface charge recombination.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laia Francàs ◽  
Shababa Selim ◽  
Sacha Corby ◽  
Dongho Lee ◽  
Camilo A. Mesa ◽  
...  

Elucidating the role of charge accumulation and reaction kinetics in governing the performance of Ni/Fe oxyhydroxides as electrocatalysts and as co-catalysts on BiVO4 photoanodes water oxidation.


Author(s):  
Bingjun Jin ◽  
Yoonjun Cho ◽  
Cheolwoo Park ◽  
Jeehun Jeong ◽  
Sungsoon Kim ◽  
...  

The photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting efficiency is profoundly restricted by the limited light harvesting, rapid charge recombination, and sluggish water oxidation kinetics, in which the construction of a photoelectrode requires...


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7344-7351
Author(s):  
Wenlong Guo ◽  
Ya Wang ◽  
Xin Lian ◽  
Yao Nie ◽  
Shijia Tian ◽  
...  

For CuWO4, oxygen vacancies can shorten the electron transfer time and boost the water oxidation kinetics, but they aggravate the charge recombination on the surface.


Author(s):  
Yiqing Wei ◽  
Huichao He ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Liuqing Yang ◽  
Xiaoyong Wang ◽  
...  

The photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation performance of -Fe2O3 photoanode is jointly restricted by its high charge recombination and sluggish water oxidation kinetics. Herein, through coupling Ag and CdS nanoparticles with...


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo A. Mesa ◽  
Ludmilla Steier ◽  
Benjamin Moss ◽  
Laia Francàs ◽  
James E. Thorne ◽  
...  

<p><i>Operando</i> spectroelectrochemical analysis is used to determine the water oxidation reaction kinetics for hematite photoanodes prepared using four different synthetic procedures. Whilst these photoanodes exhibit very different current / voltage performance, their underlying water oxidation kinetics are found to be almost invariant. Lower photoanode performance was found to correlate with the observation of optical signals indicative of charge accumulation in mid-gap oxygen vacancy states, indicating these states do not contribute directly to water oxidation.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1046
Author(s):  
Inam Ul Haq ◽  
Sabine Brantl

Moonlighting proteins are proteins with more than one function. During the past 25 years, they have been found to be rather widespread in bacteria. In Bacillus subtilis, moonlighting has been disclosed to occur via DNA, protein or RNA binding or protein phosphorylation. In addition, two metabolic enzymes, enolase and phosphofructokinase, were localized in the degradosome-like network (DLN) where they were thought to be scaffolding components. The DLN comprises the major endoribonuclease RNase Y, 3′-5′ exoribonuclease PnpA, endo/5′-3′ exoribonucleases J1/J2 and helicase CshA. We have ascertained that the metabolic enzyme GapA is an additional component of the DLN. In addition, we identified two small proteins that bind scaffolding components of the degradosome: SR1P encoded by the dual-function sRNA SR1 binds GapA, promotes the GapA-RNase J1 interaction and increases the RNase J1 activity. SR7P encoded by the dual-function antisense RNA SR7 binds to enolase thereby enhancing the enzymatic activity of enolase bound RNase Y. We discuss the role of small proteins in modulating the activity of two moonlighting proteins.


Author(s):  
Liang Zhao ◽  
Ding Chen ◽  
Shang Xu ◽  
Zhi Fang ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
...  

Fast surface charge recombination and poor light capture capability are regarded as the two critical factors that hamper the photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of photoanodes. In the present work, we employed...


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2643-2652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shababa Selim ◽  
Laia Francàs ◽  
Miguel García-Tecedor ◽  
Sacha Corby ◽  
Chris Blackman ◽  
...  

Unveiling the role of applied bias on the charge carrier dynamics in the WO3/BiVO4 junction during water oxidation.


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