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Insight of water oxidation kinetics of BiVO4 photoanode by vapor phase cation exchange method

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Among numerous semiconductors, BiVO4 has a suitable bandgap width, excellent valence band energy level and high activity for visible light water oxidation. It is an important oxygen evolution photocatalyst, but its carrier migration rate is still lower than other semiconductor materials. Therefore, in this paper, transition metal cations such as Fe3+ were selectively exchanged with V5+ in BiVO4 in a high-temperature Ar atmosphere by vapor phase cation exchange method, cationic bonds with strong binding force were formed at the interface between metal elements and catalysts, effectively accelerating bulk to surface charge separation. The adsorption energy and surface oxidation kinetics of the intermediate in the process of water oxidation were enhanced, and the photoelectrochemical properties of the intermediate were effectively improved.

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The vapor phase cation exchange between Fe3+ and V5+ of BiVO4 photoanode makes the metal element and the catalyst form a strong cationic bond at the interface, which greatly reduces the charge transport resistance to a certain extent, accelerates the water reaction kinetics, which can not only significantly improve the stability, but also increase the photocurrent density and significantly reduce the starting potential.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20210308), the Basic Science Center Program for Ordered Energy Conversion of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51888103) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. NE2019103).

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    Xijuan Li, Lingling Ding, Yaqian Zhang, Wang Tao, Kun Chang & Jianping He

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Li, X., Ding, L., Zhang, Y. et al. Insight of water oxidation kinetics of BiVO4 photoanode by vapor phase cation exchange method. Catal Lett (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-024-04673-3

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