Shanghai silicate institute has made progress in the research of BiVO4 based photoanode materials
Solar photoelectric chemistry (PEC) cracking water is an effective method to convert solar energy into hydrogen energy. Among many semiconductor photoanodes, BiVO4 is an excellent photoanode material due to its suitable conduction band, valence band position and forbidden band width. BiVO4 has a light absorption edge of 515nm and a theoretical maximum photocurrent density (Jmax) of 7.5ma cm-2 under AM1.5 sunlight. However, the actual photodecomposition hydroelectricity current density (JH2O) is much lower than its theoretical value, mainly because BiVO4 [...]