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Periodically Ordered Nanoporous Perovskite Photoelectrode for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Nonmetallic materials
with localized surface plasmon resonance
(LSPR) have a great potential for solar energy harvesting applications.
Exploring nonmetallic plasmonic materials is desirable yet challenging.
Herein, an efficient nonmetallic plasmonic perovskite photoelectrode,
namely, SrTiO<sub>3</sub>, with a periodically ordered nanoporous
structure showing an intense LSPR in the visible light region is reported.
The crystalline-core@amorphous-shell structure of the SrTiO<sub>3</sub> photoelectrode enables a strong LSPR due to the high charge carrier
density induced by oxygen vacancies in the amorphous shell. The reversible
tunability in LSPR of the SrTiO<sub>3</sub> photoelectrode was observed
by oxidation/reduction treatment and incident angle adjusting. Such
a nonmetallic plasmonic SrTiO<sub>3</sub> photoelectrode displays
a dramatic plasmon-enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting performance
with a photocurrent density of 170.0 μA cm<sup>–2</sup> under visible light illumination and a maximum incident photon-to-current-conversion
efficiency of 4.0% in the visible light region, which are comparable
to the state-of-the-art plasmonic noble metal sensitized photoelectrodes