Photosplitting of water in a photoelectrolyser with solid polymer electrolyte
β Scribed by Yu.V. Pleskov; M.D. Krotova
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-4686
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β¦ Synopsis
Abetnet-A photoelectrolyser with a semiconductor (SrTiO,, TiO,) photoanode for splitting water at the expense of solar energy was designed, with a membrane of sulphonated polytetralluorethylene used as an electrolyte. The !lat-band potential of the semiconductor was determined from the photocurrent data, and the characteristics of the semiconductor electrodes in contact with the solid polymer electrolyte and with aqueous H,SO, solution were found to be similar. The quantum efficiency of the anodic photocurrent is as high as 0.8.
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