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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Année : 2012

Mesoporous alpha-Fe2O3 thin films synthesized via the sol-gel process for light-driven water oxidation

Clément Sanchez

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This work reports a facile and cost-effective method for synthesizing photoactive alpha-Fe2O3 films as well as their performances when used as photoanodes for water oxidation. Transparent alpha-Fe2O3 mesoporous films were fabricated by template-directed sol-gel chemistry coupled with the dip-coating approach, followed by annealing at various temperatures from 350 degrees C to 750 degrees C in air. alpha-Fe2O3 films were characterized by X-ray diffraction, XPS, FE-SEM and electrochemical measurements. The photoelectrochemical performance of alpha-Fe2O3 photoanodes was characterized and optimized through the deposition of Co-based co-catalysts via different methods (impregnation, electro-deposition and photo-electro-deposition). Interestingly, the resulting hematite films heat-treated at relatively low temperature (500 degrees C), and therefore devoid of any extrinsic dopant, achieve light-driven water oxidation under near-to-neutral (pH = 8) aqueous conditions after decoration with a Co catalyst. The onset potential is 0.75 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), thus corresponding to 450 mV light-induced underpotential, although modest photocurrent density values (40 mu A cm(-2)) are obtained below 1.23 V vs. RHE. These new materials with a very large interfacial area in contact with the electrolyte and allowing for a high loading of water oxidation catalysts open new avenues for the optimization of photo-electrochemical water
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hal-00761420 , version 1 (05-12-2012)

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Wael Hamd, Saioa Cobo, Jennifer Fize, Gianguido Baldinozzi, Wilfrid Schwartz, et al.. Mesoporous alpha-Fe2O3 thin films synthesized via the sol-gel process for light-driven water oxidation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, 14 (38), pp.13224-13232. ⟨10.1039/c2cp42535a⟩. ⟨hal-00761420⟩
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