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Combining Electrosynthesis with Thermolysis: A Safe/Scalable Route to Multinary Oxide Semiconductor Films
Author(s) -
Vali Abbas,
Jee HyungWoo,
Myung Noseung,
Rajeshwar Krishnan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemelectrochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 2196-0216
DOI - 10.1002/celc.202100193
Subject(s) - electrosynthesis , ternary operation , materials science , oxide , thermal decomposition , semiconductor , nanotechnology , electrochemistry , optoelectronics , computer science , chemistry , metallurgy , electrode , organic chemistry , programming language
Abstract Adding a thermolysis step to electrosynthesis (as in “electrothermosynthesis”) considerably enhances the scope of electrochemical film deposition and affords multinary compositions previously inaccessible by this otherwise versatile and mild synthetic approach. Copper pyrovanadate (β−Cu 2 V 2 O 7 ), a member of the Cu−V−O family of ternary oxide semiconductors that are of considerable interest to the solar fuel community, is shown herein to be an exemplar of this approach. Finally, the generality of the hybrid approach is discussed for a variety of ternary metal oxides.