Significant charge recombination that is difficult to suppress limits the practical applications of hematite (α-Fe O ) for photoelectrochemical water splitting. In this study, Ti-modified hematite mesocrystal superstructures assembled from highly oriented tiny nanoparticle (NP) subunits with sizes of ca. 5 nm were developed to achieve the highest photocurrent density (4.3 mA cm at 1.23 V vs. RHE) ever reported for hematite-based photoanodes under back illumination. Owing to rich interfacial oxygen vacancies yielding an exceedingly high carrier density of 4.1×10 cm for super bulk conductivity in the electrode and a large proportion of ultra-narrow depletion layers (<1 nm) inside the mesoporous film for significantly improved hole collection efficiency, a boosting of multihole water oxidation with very low activation energy (E =44 meV) was realized.
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