MoS2-wrapped silicon nanowires for photoelectrochemical water reduction

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• 作者：Liming Zhang (1)
  Chong Liu (1)
  Andrew Barnabas Wong (1) (4)
  Joaquin Resasco (2)
  Peidong Yang (1) (3) (4)
  
  1. Department of Chemistry ; University of California ; Berkeley ; CA ; 94720 ; USA
  4. Materials Sciences Division ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Berkeley ; CA ; 94720 ; USA
  2. Department of Chemical Engineering ; University of California ; Berkeley ; CA ; 94720 ; USA
  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering ; University of California ; Berkeley ; CA ; 94720 ; USA
  
• 关键词：MoS2 ; Si nanowire array ; coaxial heterostructure ; photoelectrochemistry ; hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
• 刊名：Nano Research
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：January 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：8
• 期：1
• 页码：281-287
• 全文大小：1,557 KB
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
  Chemistry
  Nanotechnology
  
• 出版者：Tsinghua University Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：1998-0000

文摘

Integration of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) onto high surface area photocathodes is highly desired to minimize the overpotential for the solar-powered hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) are beneficial for use in photoelectrochemistry because of their large electrochemically available surface area and inherent ability to decouple light absorption and the transport of minority carriers. Here, silicon (Si) NW arrays were employed as a model photocathode system for MoS2 wrapping, and their solar-driven HER activity was evaluated. The photocathode is made up of a well-defined MoS2/TiO2/Si coaxial NW heterostructure, which yielded photocurrent density up to 15 mA/cm2 (at 0 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)) with good stability under the operating conditions employed. This work reveals that earth-abundant electrocatalysts coupled with high surface area NW electrodes can provide performance comparable to noble metal catalysts for photocathodic hydrogen evolution.