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Sputtered NiO_x Films for Stabilization of p^+n-lnP Photoanodes for Solar-Driven Water Oxidation

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, San Diego

Abstract

A photoanode protection strategy using a multifunctional NiO_x coating is presented. The ransparency/antireflectivity, low electrochromism, conduction of holes, corrosion protection, and active electrocatalysis for water-oxidation half-reaction are described.

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© 2015 Wiley·VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. Article first Received: December 17, 2014. Revised : February 6, 2015. Published online: March 18, 2015. This work was supported th rough the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-SC0004993 to the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub. Material growth by GSMBE was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Nos. DMR-0907652 and DMR-1106369. UV-vis spectroscopy was performed at the Molecular Materials Research Center (MMRC) in the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. This work was also supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation under Award No. GBMF1225. N.S.L., as well as the work at near-neutral pH, was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) under AFOSR Award No. FA9550-10-1-0572. The authors thank M. Lichterman, I. Moreno-Hernandez, and S. Hu for stimulating discussions and K. Papadantonakis for editing this paper. The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-SC0004993
NSF
DMR-0907652
NSF
DMR-1106369
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
GBMF1225
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
FA9550-10-1-0572

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