Photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen production is of great interest as an ideal avenue towards clean and renewable energy. However, the instability and low energy conversion efficiency of photoanodes hinder their practical applications. Here we address these issues by introducing a hole extraction layer (HEL) which could rapidly transfer and consume photogenerated holes. The HEL is constructed by reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and other cocatalysts that enable rapid transfer and subsequent consumption of holes, respectively. Specifically, we showcase a high-stability photoanode composed of CdSeTe nanowires (CST NWs) and RGO/ PdS nanoparticles (PdS NPs) based HEL. The photoanode achieves excellent photocorrosion resistance, which allows stable hydrogen evolution for > 2 h at 0.5 V RHE .
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (LHPs) are emerging with enormous potential for high‐performance optoelectronics. Regrettably, most of the reported lead halide nanocrystal‐based photodetectors (LHP‐PDs) focus on six‐faceted hexahedron (cube/platelet) shapes and encounter issues of interface recombination of the photogenerated electron‐hole pairs and low carrier migration efficiency. Herein, a vertical heterojunction photodetector with type‐I band alignment based on high‐quality polyhedral orthorhombic CsPbBr3 nanocrystals (NCs) is designed and realized. The results show that utilizing these rhombic dodecahedron CsPbBr3 as photosensitive layers, the p‐Si/CsPbBr3 device presents high responsivity (R) and detectability (D*) values of 8.36 A W−1 and 9.33 × 1013 Jones, a powerful weak light detection capability with an ultralow noise equivalent power (NEP) of 2.14 × 10−15 W Hz−1/2, and a fast response time of 90/162 µs . Meanwhile, based on theoretical density functional theory (DFT) and energy band analysis, it is shown that the recombination of photogenerated electron‐hole pairs can be significantly suppressed, and the spectral response of the PDs is almost contributed by photogenerated carriers in CsPbBr3 . The work provides a new avenue for improving the performance of PDs based on large‐size orthorhombic polyhedral CsPbBr3 NCs by morphological structure modulation and optimized band alignment engineering.
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