“…During the process of generating and transporting the photoelectrons and holes in the heterojunction, three main steps are included: rst, light is absorbed by the semiconductor, where the coupling of two semiconductors narrows the bandgap, thus increasing light absorption and generating more photoelectron-hole pairs; second, the photoelectrons generated would transfer to the conduction band (CB) from the valence band (VB), and the holes would stay in the VB; and third, since the CB and VB positions of BiOI are higher than those of BFO, the photoelectrons in the CB of BiOI would further transfer to the CB of BFO; furthermore, the holes in the VB of BFO would move to the VB of BiOI, and as a result of this transition, the photogenerated carriers were efficiently separated. Furthermore, the band bending at the interface between BFO and BiOI, which was induced by the spontaneous polarization of BFO, could accelerate carrier transfer, 31,37,38 thus improving the separation efficiency of photoelectrons and holes and extending the lifetime of the carriers, which contributes greatly to enhancing the PEC properties of the composite.…”