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Progress in Chemistry 2016, Vol. 28 Issue (6): 908-916 DOI: 10.7536/PC151115 Previous Articles   Next Articles

Special Issue: 电化学有机合成

• Review and comments •

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy for Photoelectrochemical Energy Research

He Huichao1,2,3, Sean P. Berglund2, Buddie Mullins2*, Zhou Yong1,4, Ke Gaili1, Dong Faqin1*   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base for Nonmetal Composites and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China;
    2. McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin 78712, USA;
    3. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou 510460, China;
    4. School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 211102, China
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    The work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)(No.2014CB846003), the Research Fund of Southwest University of Science and Technology (No. 15zx7104, 15zx7123) and the Cooperative Research Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials (No.GLMPM-019).
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Since introduced by Allen J. Bard and co-workers in 1986, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has been used as a powerful scanning probe technique in wide variety of fields, such as metal anti-corrosion, material characterization, biomedicine and new energy technology. In recent years, SECM plays a more and more important role in the field of photoelectrochemical energy research. In this paper, we introduce the basic principle as well as feedback and generation-collection operation-modes of SECM and highlight some of the recent advances on SECM applied to studies of solar cell and solar water splitting. SECM coupling with light source used as an effective tool for investigating interfacial charge transfer process and the regeneration kinetics of dyes in dye-sensitized solar cell are described. Additionally, SECM used as a powerful screening technique for developing efficient photocatalysts is discussed. Furthermore, we provide a brief research example that related SECM used as a combinatorial screening technique to investigate Ⅲ A, Ⅳ A and ⅤA group metal ions as dopants for WO3 for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. This work has been conducted in our group recently, and it is reported for the first time. The details of this work are presented, including preparing doped WO3 arrays on FTO glass substrate, setting up SECM testing system, photoelectrochemical scanning doped WO3 arrays, screening scan results and proving scan results on scaled-up films. The SECM screening results show that 2%~4% In3+ doped WO3, 2%~4% Sn4+ doped WO3 and 4%~6% Sb5+ doped WO3 have higher photoelectrochemical activity than un-doped WO3. On the basis of research results, it is concluded that SECM is a convenient and efficient screening technique, has a promising application prospect in the development of photocatalysts. Finally, we briefly describe and forecast the development trend of SECM in the field of photoelectrochemical energy research.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 SECM operation modes
2.1 Feedback mode
2.2 Generation-collection mode
3 SECM used as tool for photoelectrochemical energy research
4 SECM used as screening technique for developing metal ion doped WO3 photocatalysts
5 Conclusion and outlook

Key words: scanning electrochemical microscopy, photoelectrochemical energy research, application

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