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Issue 23, 2014
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Black TiO2 nanotube arrays for high-efficiency photoelectrochemical water-splitting†

Houlei Cui,a   Wei Zhao,a   Chongyin Yang,a   Hao Yin,a   Tianquan Lin,a   Yufeng Shan,a   Yian Xie,a   Hui Gua  and  Fuqiang Huang*ab  
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a State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, P.R. China
E-mail: huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn

b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China

Abstract

Black titania nanotube arrays are prepared for the first time by the melted aluminium reduction of pristine anodized and air-annealed titania nanotube arrays. The black titania nanotubes with substantial Ti3+ and oxygen vacancies exhibit an excellent photoelectrochemical water-splitting performance due to the improved charge transport and separation and the extended visible light response. An impressive applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of 1.20% is achieved.

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https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA00176A
Submitted
12 Jan 2014
Accepted
11 Mar 2014
First published
13 Mar 2014
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 8612-8616
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Communication
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Black TiO2 nanotube arrays for high-efficiency photoelectrochemical water-splitting

H. Cui, W. Zhao, C. Yang, H. Yin, T. Lin, Y. Shan, Y. Xie, H. Gu and F. Huang, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 8612
DOI: 10.1039/C4TA00176A

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