• openAccess   Improved Photoelectrochemical Performance of WO3/BiVO4 Heterojunction Photoanodes via WO3 Nanostructuring 

      Nomellini, Chiara; Polo, Annalisa; Mesa, Camilo A.; Pastor , Ernest; Marra, Gianluigi; Grigioni, Ivan; Dozzi, Maria Vittoria; Gimenez, Sixto; Selli, Elena American Chemical Society (2023-11-15)
      WO3/BiVO4 heterojunction photoanodes can be efficiently employed in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for the conversion of water into molecular oxygen, the kinetic bottleneck of water splitting. Composite WO3/BiVO4 ...
    • openAccess   Spectroelectrochemical Analysis of the Water Oxidation Mechanism on Doped Nickel Oxides 

      Rao, Reshma R.; Corby, Sacha; Bucci, Alberto; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Mesa, Camilo A.; Rossmeisl, Jan; Gimenez, Sixto; Lloret Fillol, Julio; Stephens, Ifan; Durrant, James American Chemical Society (2022-04-20)
      Metal oxides and oxyhydroxides exhibit state-of-the-art activity for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER); however, their reaction mechanism, particularly the relationship between charging of the oxide and OER kinetics, ...
    • openAccess   TiO2 Nanotubes for Solar Water Splitting: Vacuum Annealing and Zr Doping Enhance Water Oxidation Kinetics 

      Shaddad, Maged; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Fabregat-Santiago, Francisco; Bisquert, Juan; Al-Mayouf, Abdullah; Gimenez, Sixto American Chemical Society (2019-09-18)
      Herein, we report the cooperative effect of Zr doping and vacuum annealing on the carrier dynamics and interfacial kinetics of anodized TiO2 nanotubes for light-driven water oxidation. After evaluation of different Zr loads ...