Stable solar-driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films

Ke Sun; Fadl H. Saadi; Michael F. Lichterman; William G. Hale; Hsin-Ping Wang; Xinghao Zhou; Noah T. Plymale; Stefan T. Omelchenko; Jr-Hau He; Kimberly M. Papadantonakis; Bruce S. Brunschwig; Nathan S. Lewis

doi:10.1073/pnas.1423034112

Stable solar-driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films

Ke Sun
, Fadl H. Saadi
, Michael F. Lichterman
, William G. Hale
, Hsin-Ping Wang
, Xinghao Zhou
, Noah T. Plymale
, Stefan T. Omelchenko
, Jr-Hau He
, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis
, Bruce S. Brunschwig
, Nathan S. Lewis^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Reactively sputtered nickel oxide (NiO_x) films provide transparent, antireflective, electrically conductive, chemically stable coatings that also are highly active electrocatalysts for the oxidation of water to O₂(g). These NiO_x coatings provide protective layers on a variety of technologically important semiconducting photoanodes, including textured crystalline Si passivated by amorphous silicon, crystalline n-type cadmium telluride, and hydrogenated amorphous silicon. Under anodic operation in 1.0 M aqueous potassium hydroxide (pH 14) in the presence of simulated sunlight, the NiO_x films stabilized all of these self-passivating, high-efficiency semiconducting photoelectrodes for >100 h of sustained, quantitative solar-driven oxidation of water to O₂(g).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3612-3617
Journal	PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	112
Issue number	12
Online published	11 Mar 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423034112
Publication status	Published - 24 Mar 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Electrocatalysis
Nickel oxide
Photoanode stabilization
Solar-driven water oxidation

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Sun, K., Saadi, F. H., Lichterman, M. F., Hale, W. G., Wang, H.-P., Zhou, X., Plymale, N. T., Omelchenko, S. T., He, J.-H., Papadantonakis, K. M., Brunschwig, B. S., & Lewis, N. S. (2015). Stable solar-driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(12), 3612-3617. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423034112

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Stable solar-driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films. / Sun, Ke; Saadi, Fadl H.; Lichterman, Michael F. et al.
In: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 12, 24.03.2015, p. 3612-3617.

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Stable solar-driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films

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