- Title
- BiOCl-based photocathode for photocatalytic fuel cell
- Creator
- Wang, Yang; Wang, Yanming; Song, Xi-ming; Zhang, Yu; Ma, Tianyi
- Relation
- ARC.DE150101306 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE150101306 & ARC.LP160100927 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160100927
- Relation
- Applied Surface Science Vol. 506, no. 144949
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144949
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- A photocatalytic fuel cell with BiOCl as the photocathode and furfural as direct fuel was developed for the first time. We synthesized a uniformly and densely distributed stable BiOCl film on F-doped Tin dioxide in-situ successfully, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results showed the existence of oxygen vacancies on the surface of BiOCl. In the furfural fuel cell, the BiOCl-coated FTO was chosen as the electrode for light-induced oxygen reduction reaction. Linear sweep voltammograms test of the Pt-BiOCl furfural fuel cell showed a higher open circuit voltage than the Pt-Pt furfural fuel cell, which was consistent with the theoretical analysis of a larger electromotive force value under illumination. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry results showed an obvious degradation effect towards furfural, 5-methyl furfural and 2-acetylfuran, which demonstrated a distinctive way of utilizing non-noble metal as the electrode in photocatalytic fuel cell.
- Subject
- photocatalytic fuel cell; BiOCL; photocathode; furfural; Sustainable Development Goals; SDG 7
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1418556
- Identifier
- uon:37373
- Identifier
- ISSN:0169-4332
- Rights
- © 2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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