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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 6: Thin Film Applications II

DS 6.4: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2020, 11:30–11:45, CHE 91

Synthesis of Rutile-TiO₂ Nanorod Arrays for Efficient Solar Water Splitting via Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal method — •Amin Qasim — University of Zakho,Duhok,KRG-Iraq

Using a microwave-assisted hydro thermal method (MWAHM) a single crystalline of vertically aligned TiO₂ nanorod (NR) arrays has been demonstrated via the novel ultra-rapid synthetic method for the production. High-quality NR arrays with controlled film thickness were achieved with fine control of the growth conditions as well. The effect of the different reaction conditions of MWAHM such as reaction time and growth temperature on the morphology, crystal orientation, and photo catalytic activity have been systematically investigated. In a typical condition of the MWAHM using 0.4 cm3 of titanium(IV) n-butoxide (TBO) at 180^∘C for 40 minutes, a small diameter and short length 124 nm and 2.93 m of TiO₂ nanorods respectively, are grown on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate. However, the photo current density produced TiO₂ NRs of 2.90 mA cm-2 with a maximum photo conversion efficiency of about 2.7 % which confers excellent photo-electrochemical performance. In comparison with the typical hydro thermal method (HM) synthesized NRs, the ultra-fast MWAHM synthesized NRs offers five times more efficiency photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting than the hydro thermal method (HM). The results suggest that these dense and aligned one-dimensional TiO₂ nanorods are promising for hydrogen generation from water splitting based on PEC cells.