Park Kwangwook, Kim Yeong Jae, Yoon Taeho, David Selvaraj, Song Young Min
Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Jeonbuk National University Jeonju 54896 Republic of Korea.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Gwangju 61005 Republic of Korea
RSC Adv. 2019 Sep 23;9(52):30112-30124. doi: 10.1039/c9ra05341g.
As a renewable and sustainable energy source and an alternative to fossil fuels, solar-driven water splitting with photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell is a promising approach to obtain hydrogen fuel with its near-zero carbon emission pathway by transforming incident sunlight, the most abundant energy source. Because of its importance and future prospects, a number of architectures with their own features have been formed by various synthesis and growth methods. Because the materials themselves are one of the most dominant components, they determine the solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of the PEC cells. Thus, several representative PEC cells were reviewed by categorizing them as per synthesis and/or growth methods such as physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, electrochemical deposition, This review provides researchers with an overview and acts as a guide for research on solar-driven water splitting PEC cells.
作为一种可再生和可持续的能源以及化石燃料的替代品，利用光电化学（PEC）电池进行太阳能驱动的水分解是一种很有前景的方法，它通过转化最丰富的能源——入射阳光，实现接近零碳排放的途径来获取氢燃料。由于其重要性和未来前景，通过各种合成和生长方法形成了许多具有自身特点的结构。由于材料本身是最主要的组成部分之一，它们决定了PEC电池的太阳能到氢能的效率。因此，通过根据物理气相沉积、化学气相沉积、电化学沉积等合成和/或生长方法对几种代表性的PEC电池进行分类综述。本综述为研究人员提供了一个概述，并为太阳能驱动水分解PEC电池的研究提供了指导。
