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products showed formation of a mixture of oxygen and chlo- of the photoelectrolyzer with a photovoltaic (PV) cell to form a
rine/hypochlorite (Cl2/HClO).[9] However, as demonstrated tandem device.[27]
by a recent extensive investigation,[15] a BiVO4 photoanode Besides long-term stability, other important criteria are to
undergoes in the electrolyte partial anodic dissolution (the loss be fulfilled contributing to an efficient operation of a semicon-
of V5+ ions from the lattice) that occurs in parallel with photo- ductor film photoelectrode. In particular, indirect nature of the
oxidation of water, the process that can be alleviated—but not optical transition in WO3 requires use of relatively thick films
suppressed by the use of catalysts. Another study, employing a to allow absorption of visible blue wavelengths close to the
titanium oxide (TiO2) nanorod electrode, coated with polymeric band edge. In principle, well-designed nanoporous electrodes
graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and subsequently decorated provide a large internal photoactive surface area in contact
with electrodeposited cobalt phosphate-oxide (Co-Pi) electro- with the electrolyte and, in the case of WO3, a relatively long
catalyst, demonstrated under similar standard conditions, i.e., hole diffusion length (≈150 nm)[24,28] may prevent bulk elec-
AM 1.5G illumination at 1.23 VRHE, stable photocurrent of tron–hole recombination within the nanoparticles (NPs) that
1.6 mA cm−2.[12] No chlorine formation along seawater photo- form the film. To allow even photocurrent distribution across
electrolysis was mentioned, that is apparently consistent with the NS film, the conductivity of the electrolyte filling the pores
the use in that case of the Co-Pi oxygen-evolution catalyst. should be large enough to avoid excessive Ohmic drops.[7] We
Recently, unassisted solar light-driven seawater splitting with note that the amount of generated current collected at the elec-
solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency of 1.9 % has been dem- trode substrate depends not only on the activity of the catalytic
onstrated on p-type gallium nitride/indium gallium nitride sites, where positive holes react with the solution species, but
(p-GaN/InGaN) nanowire arrays.[13] The authors assigned the also on the electron mobility that is relatively large (in the range
increased rate of H2 evolution observed in the experiments con- of 6.5–12 cm2 V−1 s−1 ) in the WO3[29,30] and on the crystalline
ducted in synthetic seawater, compared to pure water, to better quality of interparticle contacts.[31]
conductivity of the reaction medium and to the oxidation of In an attempt to match in particular the penetration depth
chloride ions suggested to act as effective intermediates in the of blue light photons close to the band edge, we prepared
process of oxygen evolution. relatively thick (close to 3 µm) NS WO3 films with modulated
Another semiconductor that absorbs a portion of visible porosity. As detailed in the Supporting Information, such films
solar spectrum and is able to produce chlorine through pho- are processed by a sequential layer-by-layer deposition (of up to
tooxidation of Cl− ions in acidic media is an n-type tungsten 8–9 consecutive individual layers) of the colloidal precursor and
trioxide.[16–20] With a bandgap that varies within 2.5–2.7 eV annealing under flowing oxygen. Decomposing the precursor
depending on its crystalline structure,[21–24] the nanocrystalline and, subsequently, sintering the formed WO3 NPs in oxi-
WO3 absorbs light in the blue region up to 500 nm.[25] Due to dizing atmosphere are essential to avoid formation within the
the photocurrent onset potential of about 0.45 VRHE, to operate film of an excessive amount of oxygen vacancy defects that may
as a water splitting photoanode the WO3 requires assistance of act as electron traps.[32] Such formed WO3 films annealed in O2
an external voltage bias. On the other hand, the higher valence atmosphere exhibit yellow color consistent with an absorption
band (VB) edge of WO3 located above 2.9 VRHE[26] is by far posi- maximum at 390–400 nm. The porosity of the film and the size
tive enough to allow the photogenerated holes to drive a variety of formed NPs are actually controlled by the amount of organic
of oxidation reactions. Efficient photooxidation of water to templates-polyethylene glycols (PEG 300 and/or PEG 600)
form oxygen, producing stable photocurrents, has been dem- added to the WO3 precursor tungstic acid solution and by mod-
onstrated using methane–sulfonic acid supporting electrolyte.[7] ulating the annealing temperature applied to particular layers.
However, the latter case appears as an exception since several In order to reconcile the required optical WO3 film thickness
other anions of the employed supporting electrolytes (sulfates, with the possibly even photocurrent penetration down to the
perchlorates, and phosphates) undergo photooxidation at the back contact we prepared the first three to four layers from the
WO3 electrode leading to the formation in solution of peroxo precursor containing larger amount of PEG (0.25 w/w WO3/
species occurring in parallel with (or instead of) oxygen evolu- PEG ratio). Such increase of the amount of template in the
tion.[16–19,7] In such cases, peroxides tend also to build on the film precursor results in formation of smaller WO3 NPs and
WO3 electrode surface resulting in the progressive drop of larger porosity within the film. This choice stemmed from the
the photocurrent.[16,18,7] Interestingly, such “passivation” of the fact that one of the consequences of the layer-by-layer deposition
WO3 electrode is impeded when the supporting acidic electro- procedure is more important sintering of the first deposited
lyte contains even a relatively small amount of chloride ions.[16] layers that undergo several annealing sequences. We have also
In this article, we show that tailoring the morphology and used a two-step calcination procedure, typically 510 (±10) °C for
optimizing crystallinity of semitransparent nanostructured (NS) the first four layers and subsequently 550 (±10) °C, to avoid too
WO3 film electrodes allows attaining very high efficiency of vis- rapid burning of organic components of the precursor in the
ible light-driven seawater splitting. As shown by the detailed first deposited layers that might affect the film adherence to the
PEC characterization below, the designed NS WO3 photoanodes FTO substrate. We also note that the employed organic addi-
exhibit excellent charge separation, transport and collection effi- tives, such as PEG, act as stabilizers of the precursor tungstic
ciency, which combined with large photoactive surface area lead acid colloidal solution[33] and, subsequently, favor binding of
to high and stable seawater splitting saturation photocurrents the WO3 NPs within the film.
attained at 0.5–0.6 V above the onset potential. We note that the Figure 1a shows the cross-sectional scanning electron
operating potential point at which the photocurrent approaches microscopic (SEM) image of a ≈3 µm thick mesoporous WO3
saturation is particularly important in view of the combination film with some pores reaching apparently the FTO substrate.
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Figure 1. a) SEM cross-section and b) top-down images of a NS WO3 film c) TEM image of WO3 removed from the substrate. d) Raman spectrum of
the WO3 film annealed at 550 °C.
The film consists of a network of individual particles with and of NPs agglomerates, it is evident that a large part of the
dimensions ranging from 20 to 30 nm and of agglomerates reaction sites is located within the pores inside the film. While
including in some cases several NPs (cf. top-down surface SEM in the case when water is photo-oxidized into O2 this generally
image in Figure 1b). X-ray diffraction patterns (Figure S1 in leads to an initial drop of the photocurrent due to the formed
the Supporting Information) indicate monoclinic crystal struc- gas bubbles filling the pores within the WO3 electrode, we
ture of the WO3 film with three main sharp peaks character- observed that this problem becomes less important when the
istic of the preferential (002), (020), and (200) orientation of the main photoanodic product is chlorine soluble in water. Such
crystallites.[31] We note the highest intensity of the (200) peak is indeed the case for the herein reported splitting of seawater
corresponding, according to the theoretical calculations,[34] to where, as detailed later, we observe dominant chlorine forma-
the WO3 facet at which the charge-transfer reactions require the tion and stable photocurrents. The additional advantage of the
lowest overpotential. The crystallinity of the synthesized WO3 Cl2 generation occurring within the pores in the WO3 electrode
is confirmed by the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a local acidification of the solution due to chlorine dispropor-
image of the particles removed from the film (Figure 1c). The tionation leading to the formation of hypochlorous acid and of
Raman spectrum in Figure 1d exhibits main features typical of hydrogen ions.[36]
monoclinic structure of WO3, with prominent bands located
Cl 2 + 2H2 O → HClO + Cl – + H3 O+ (1)
close to 715 and 805 cm−1 and weaker at around 270 and
325 cm−1.[31] We also characterized the WO3 films by X-ray This reaction allows preserve electrode stability over photo-
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The Na 1s XPS signal indi- electrolysis of initially neutral electrolytes (such as seawater).
cated presence of around 1 at% of sodium expressed as Na/W Actually, the dissolution of Cl2, under arbitrary chosen rela-
atom ratio consistent with the optimum film doping that was tively low partial pressure of 0.067 atm. in a 0.5 m aq. NaCl
achieved by adding 0.4 at% of Na+ to the tungstic acid precursor (corresponding approximately to its typical concentration
containing a residue of Na2WO4.[35] On the other hand, the only in seawater) results already in a solution pH of around 2.5
detectable impurity on the WO3 film surface was adventitious (cf. Section SIV in the Supporting Information). We recall,
carbon (Figure S2 in the Supporting Information). in this connection, that according to the Pourbaix diagram[36]
Since the formed NS films consist of networks of several tens WO3 is thermodynamically stable in acidic solutions of pH
of superimposed WO3 particles with (20–30 nm) d imensions lower than 4.
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Figure 3. a) PEC water oxidation current versus potential curve (recorded under simulated AM 1.5G solar light) and b) the IPCE spectrum for a 3 µm
thick WO3 photoanode both measured in a 1 m methane-sulfonic acid electrolyte.
For comparison with the seawater, we also performed peroxide layer on WO3 may be quenched by chloride ions, it is
measurements in a 0.5 m NaCl solution acidified to pH 2 that important to recall a strong oxidant activity of the peroxo com-
gave comparable results (see Figure S5 in the Supporting plexes formed by early transition metals in their highest oxi-
Information). dation state: tungsten (VI), molybdenum (VI), vanadium (V),
To further evaluate the PEC performance of the designed and rhenium (VII). In particular, these complexes are able to
≈3 µm thick WO3 films, we also carried out measurements in a oxidize halides.[41] The latter might be the reason for which the
1 m methane–sulfonic acid supporting electrolyte where oxygen photooxidation at WO3 of chloride anions to form Cl2 may be
is formed at the photoanode.[7,35] As shown in Figure 3a, at perceived as a self-activated reaction.
1.23 VRHE) even larger, than in the seawater, saturation photo- In Figure 4a, is represented result of WO3 photoanode sta-
current of 4.97 mA cm−2 is attained; for several similar tested bility test performed in a 0.5 m NaCl solution acidified to pH 2.
WO3 photoanodes the maximum photocurrents exceeded regu- The evolution of the photocurrent in function of time was followed
larly 4.8 mA cm−2. Like in the case of seawater splitting experi- at an imposed potential of 0.76 V versus Ag/AgCl. We assign a
ments (cf. Figure S3 in the Supporting Information), we note moderate decline of the photocurrents to the accumulation of gas
here presence of dark currents at low anodic bias (cf. j–E trace bubbles (principally O2 cogenerated with Cl2) within the pores of
recorded under chopped illumination in Figure S6 in the Sup- the WO3 photoanode causing reduction of the internal photoactive
porting Information) that we assign to release of protons inserted surface area. The latter electrode used subsequently in a series of
into the WO3 lattice,[38] under electrode illumination at open cir- other experiments exhibited practically unchanged j–E behavior.
cuit before recording the j–E plot. In fact, the amount of such dark As already mentioned, the changes in the saturation photocur-
current was proportional to the period of time the WO3 electrode rents after several months of the WO3 photoanode utilization did
spent illuminated at open circuit, before starting anodic polariza- not exceed 3%. For comparison we show in Figure 4b result of
tion. However, the dark current contribution does no more affect a similar stability test conducted with a much thinner (≈0.5 µm
the photocurrents observed halfway from the saturation region. thick) WO3 photoanode. Consistently with its much lower internal
As shown in Figure 3b, consistently with the j–E plot, the WO3 surface area, the change of the photocurrent along the 20 h elec-
electrode exhibits in the 1 m CH3SO3H electrolyte high IPCEs trolysis is here less pronounced confirming good chemical and
with a maximum of 87% observed over 390–400 nm wavelengths. mechanical stability of the WO3 electrode.
As already mentioned, the photoanodic behavior of WO3 is The amounts of chlorine formed in the anodic cell compart-
in general dominated by oxidation of anions of the supporting ment over photoelectrolysis of a 0.5 m NaCl solution or seawater
electrolyte that, for example, in the case of HSO4− ions leads acidified to pH 2 were determined by spectrophotometry using
to the formation of peroxodisulfate species,[39,16] and is most N,N-diethyl-p-phenylenediamine sulfate (DPD) and/or methyl
often accompanied by the build-up of a surface peroxide layer orange reagents (see Section S V in the Supporting Information).
resulting in a reversible deactivation of the photoanode (with During the experiments, the cell was closed hermetically with
more or less rapid, progressive drop of the photocurrent).[16–19,7] the two compartments separated by a Nafion membrane; the
An important exception we identified previously,[7] is the photo- latter explains use in this case of slightly acidified electrolyte to
electrolysis conducted in aqueous solutions of CH3SO3H that preserve the ionic contact between the photoanode and cathode.
produces at the WO3 electrode stable O2 evolution currents, due The results of analyses summarized in Figure 4c show on
apparently to very high reactivity of the CH3SO3· radical spe- average a 70% Faradaic efficiency of chlorine formation at the
cies with water.[40] On the other hand, experiments performed WO3 photoanode occurring, apparently, in parallel with oxygen
with addition of even small amounts of chloride ions to solu- evolution:
tions containing larger concentrations of oxy-anions (ClO4−, 2Cl – → Cl 2 + 2e – (2)
SO42−) showed the absence of deactivation of the anodically
1
polarized WO3 photoelectrode. To understand the way a surface 2H2 O → O2 + 2H3 O+ + 2e – (3)
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CO2 does not take place. Maintaining the electrolyte pH slightly Natural Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University for the Raman
acidic in the cathode compartment would, consequently, allow measurements and Dr. M. Pisarek from the Institute of Physical
maintaining the operating voltage of the PEC cell producing Chemistry PAS for the XPS measurements.
chlorine and hydrogen in the 1.3–1.4 V range.
In Section S VI and Figure S7 in the Supporting Informa-
tion are represented the curves of charging of the Pd cathode Conflict of Interest
during seawater splitting and, subsequently, of the hydrogen The authors declare no conflict of interest.
extraction conducted over three times longer period of time.
To avoid eventuality of the palladium corrosion, the extraction
of hydrogen was conducted in a 0.1 m NaOH solution. That
Keywords
experiment showed an extraction efficiency of 93% suggesting
that practically all hydrogen formed at the cathode of the PEC chlorine generation, hydride-forming metallic cathode, hydrogen
seawater splitting cell is in the form of hydride. generation, nanostructured tungsten trioxide, photoelectrochemical cell,
seawater splitting, WO3 photoanode
In summary, we have shown that a photoelectrolyzer that
uses a nanostructured WO3 photoanode combined with a pal- Received: September 30, 2019
ladium cathode allows efficient seawater splitting with the Revised: November 14, 2019
dominant chlorine production in the anodic compartment and Published online:
hydrogen generation at the cathode in the form of palladium
hydride. The principal benefits of such cell configuration are
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