Semiconductors, Electrocatalysts, and Interfaces in Solar Water Splitting
a Department of Chemistry and the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregón, EE. UU., Eugene, United States
Proceedings of International Conference on New Advances in Materials Research for Solar Fuels Production (SolarFuel13)
Granada, Spain, 2013 June 13th - 14th
Organizer: Dunwei Wang
Invited Speaker, Shannon Boettcher, presentation 002
Publication date: 31st March 2013
Publication date: 31st March 2013
Water-splitting requires interfacing high-quality semiconductors that absorb sunlight with efficient electrocatalysts that facilitate multi-electron fuel-forming reactions. I will present our recent progress at the University of Oregon in (1) developing low-cost, scalable, atmospheric-pressure vapor-transport routes to deposit high-quality III-V semiconductor light-absorbers, (2) understanding and optimizing oxygen-evolution electrocatalyst films of multi-component first-row transition metal oxides and hydroxides, and (3) using theory, simulation, and direct electrical measurements to describe the critical details of charge transport across electrocatalyst-semiconductor interfaces.
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