Diethylenetriamine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of dodecahedral α-Fe2O3 nanocrystals with enhanced and stable photoelectrochemical activity

Rui Xu; You Xu; Yi Huang; Yanmei Shi; Bin Zhang

doi:10.1039/C4CE01872A

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Diethylenetriamine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of dodecahedral α-Fe₂O₃ nanocrystals with enhanced and stable photoelectrochemical activity†

Rui Xu,^a You Xu,^a Yi Huang,^a Yanmei Shi^a and Bin Zhang*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, China
E-mail: bzhang@tju.edu.cn

Abstract

Dodecahedral α-Fe₂O₃ nanocrystals (D-hematite) were successfully synthesized through a hydrothermal method involving FeS-diethylenetriamine (FeS-DETA) hybrid nanosheets as starting materials. The photoanode made by assembling the as-obtained D-hematite on ITO substrates exhibited efficient photoelectrocatalytic water splitting activity and good stability in 1.0 M KOH aqueous solution under visible light irradiation.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CE01872A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 12 Sep 2014
Accepted: 04 Nov 2014
First published: 06 Nov 2014

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CrystEngComm, 2015,17, 27-31

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Diethylenetriamine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of dodecahedral α-Fe₂O₃ nanocrystals with enhanced and stable photoelectrochemical activity

R. Xu, Y. Xu, Y. Huang, Y. Shi and B. Zhang, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 27 DOI: 10.1039/C4CE01872A

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