Citation: Yanling Wu, Deyu Liu, Huanglong Zhuang, Jiabo Le, Yongbo Kuang. High-performance bulk heterojunction-based photocathode with facile architecture for photoelectrochemical water splitting[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(1): 107480. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.04.078 shu

High-performance bulk heterojunction-based photocathode with facile architecture for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Yanling Wu ^{a, b} ,
Deyu Liu ^a ,
Huanglong Zhuang ^c ,
Jiabo Le ^a ,
Yongbo Kuang ^{a, *,}

a.
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
b.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
c.
Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Featured Biochemical and Chemical Materials, Ningde Normal University, Ningde 352100, China

kuangyongbo@nimte.ac.cn

Received Date: 18 February 2022
Revised Date: 20 March 2022
Accepted Date: 28 April 2022
Available Online: 1 May 2022

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Organic semiconductors are promising candidates as photoactive layers for photoelectrodes used in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells due to their excellent light absorption and efficient charge transport properties with the help of interfacial materials. However, the use of multilayers will make the charge transfer mechanism more complicated and decrease the PEC performance of the photoelectrode caused by the increased contact resistance. In this work, a PM6:Y6 bulk heterojunction (BHJ)-based photocathode is fabricated for efficient PEC hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in an acidic aqueous solution. With RuO₂ as an interfacial modification layer, the photocathode with a simple structure (fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/PM6:Y6/RuO₂) generates a maximum photocurrent density up to −15 mA/cm² at 0 V vs. reference hydrogen electrode (RHE), outperforming all previously reported BHJ-based photocathodes in terms of PEC performance. The highest ratiometric power-saved efficiency of 3.7% is achieved at 0.4 V vs. RHE.
- Photocathodes,
- Ruthenium oxide,
- Bulk heterojunctions,
- Hydrogen evolution,
- Photoelectrochemical cells
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