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High-throughput parallel testing of ten photoelectrochemical cells for water splitting: case study on the effects of temperature in hematite photoanodes

Valenza, Roberto  
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Holmes-Gentle, Isaac Thomas  
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Bedoya-Lora, Franky E.
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May 30, 2024
Sustainable Energy & Fuels

High-throughput testing of photoelectrochemical cells and materials under well-defined operating conditions can accelerate the discovery of new semiconducting materials, the characterization of the phenomena occurring at the semiconductor-electrolyte interface, or the understanding of the coupled multi-physics transport phenomena of a complete working cell. However, there have been few high-throughput systems capable of dealing with complete cells and applying variations in real-life operating conditions, like temperature or irradiance. Understanding the effects of the variations of these real-life operating conditions on the performance of photoelectrode materials requires reliable and reproducible measurements. In this work, we report on a setup that simultaneously tests ten individual, identical photoelectrochemical cells whilst controlling temperature. The effects of temperature from 26 to 65 degrees C were studied in tin-doped hematite photoanodes for water splitting - as a reference case - through cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The increase of surface-state-mediated charge recombination with temperature mainly penalized the energy conversion efficiency due to the reduction of the photovoltage produced. For parallel measurements in the ten individual cells, standard deviations from 20 to 60 mV for the onset potentials and less than 0.2 mA cm-2 for saturation current densities quantified the reproducibility of the results.|A setup that simultaneously tests ten photoelectrochemical cells whilst controlling temperature was developed. Applied to Sn:alpha-Fe2O3 photoanodes, increasing temperature penalized energy conversion efficiency due to increased surface recombination.

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DOI
10.1039/d4se00451e
Web of Science ID

WOS:001238834900001

Author(s)
Valenza, Roberto  
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Holmes-Gentle, Isaac Thomas  
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Bedoya-Lora, Franky E.
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Haussener, Sophia  
Date Issued

2024-05-30

Publisher

Royal Soc Chemistry

Published in
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Technology

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Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

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Electrical-Conductivity

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Effective Masses

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Doped Hematite

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Small-Polaron

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Solar

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Combinatorial

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Silicon

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Dependence

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Oxidation

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LRESE  
FunderGrant Number

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Frderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

861151

European Union

155876

Swiss National Science Foundation, as part of the SCOUTS project

CRSII5_202225

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June 19, 2024
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