Electronic Tuning of Zinc Oxide by Direct Fabrication of Chromium (Cr) incorporated photoanodes for Visible-light driven Water Splitting Applications
dc.contributor.author | Khan, HR | |
dc.contributor.author | Akram, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Aamir, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Malik, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Tahir, AA | |
dc.contributor.author | Choudhary, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Akhtar, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-08T14:07:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | Herein, we report the synthesis of Cr incorporated ZnO sheets arrays microstructures and construction of photoelectrode through a direct aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) method. The as-prepared Cr incorporated ZnO microstructures were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, powdered X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and UV-Vis diffused reflectance spectroscopy. The Cr incorporation in ZnO red shifted the optical band gap of as-prepared photoanodes. The 15% Cr incorporation in ZnO has shown enhanced PEC performance. The AACVD method provides an efficient in situ incorporation approach for the manipulation of morphological aspects, phase purity, and band structure of photoelectrodes for an enhanced PEC performance. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Higher Education Commission of Pakistan | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Manchester | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-020-66589-3 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 8227 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122769 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Electronic Tuning of Zinc Oxide by Direct Fabrication of Chromium (Cr) incorporated photoanodes for Visible-light driven Water Splitting Applications | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-08T14:07:11Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-05-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-09-08T13:17:02Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-09-08T14:08:21Z | |
refterms.panel | B | en_GB |
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