纳米棒
材料科学
电荷(物理)
半导体
吸收(声学)
化学物理
载流子
光诱导电荷分离
纳米结构
纳米技术
光电子学
化学
物理
复合材料
生物化学
量子力学
光催化
人工光合作用
催化作用
作者
Nan Yang,Ruotian Chen,Chenwei Ni,Dongfeng Li,Qi Sun,Lifang Liu,Yu Qi,Shengye Jin,Xiuli Wang,Fengtao Fan,Can Li,Fuxiang Zhang
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jechem.2022.04.015
摘要
In this work, we use 1D BiVO 4 nanocones and nanorods as prototypes to study the influence of 1D symmetry on charge separation. The unexpected spatial charge separation on the asymmetric nanocones as a result of charge carrier diffusion for the asymmetric tip-enhanced light absorption. One dimensional (1D) semiconductor is a class of extensively attractive materials for many emerging solar energy conversion technologies. However, it is still of shortage to assess the impact of 1D structural symmetry on spatial charge separation and understand its underlying mechanism. Here we take controllably-synthesized 1D BiVO 4 nanocones and nanorods as prototypes to study the influence of 1D symmetry on charge separation. It is found that the asymmetric BiVO 4 nanocones enable more effective charge separation compared with the symmetric nanorods. The unexpected spatial charge separation on the nanocones is mainly ascribed to uneven light absorption induced diffusion-controllable charge separation due to symmetry breaking of 1D nanostructure, as evidenced by spatial and temporal resolved spectroscopy. Moreover, the promotion effect of charge separation on the nanocones was quantitatively evaluated to be over 20 times higher than that in BiVO 4 nanorods. This work gives the first demonstration of the influence of 1D structural symmetry on the charge separation behavior, providing new insights to design and fabricate semiconductor materials for efficient solar energy conversion.
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