Photoelectrochemical H<sub>2</sub> evolution on WO<sub>3</sub>/BiVO<sub>4</sub> enabled by single-crystalline TiO<sub>2</sub> overlayer modulations
Eunoak Park, Santosh S. Patil, Hyeonkwon Lee, Vijay S. Kumbhar, Kiyoung Lee
Abstract
A feasible and simple surface modulation with single crystalline TiO 2 is presented for a WO 3 /BiVO 4 heterostructure via a spin coating strategy, exhibiting a remarkably high H 2 evolution rate and excellent photostability.
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