Yi Jing

TL;DR: The achieved results offer very useful guidelines in designing b-NWs mesh photoelectrodes for high-efficiency, low-cost, and flexible PEC cells using cheap, earth-abundant materials for clean solar hydrogen generation at large scales.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the branched nanowire heterojunction photoelectrode offers improved light absorption, increased photocurrent generation, and enhanced gas evolution kinetics because of the dramatically increased surface area and decreased radius of curvature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nickel oxide (NiOx) thin film, from a cost-effective sol-gel process, coated n-type silicon (n-Si) as a photoanode for efficient photo-oxidation of water under neutral pH condition.

TL;DR: These studies not only reveal the promise of 3D branched NW photoelectrodes for high efficiency solar energy harvesting and conversion to clean chemical fuels, but also developing understanding enabling rational design of high efficiency robust photocathodes and photoanodes from low-cost and earth-abundant materials.

TL;DR: These results provide very useful guidelines in designing photoelectrodes for selective solar water oxidation/reduction and overall spontaneous solar fuel generation using low cost earth-abundant materials for practical clean solar fuel production.