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Item High water oxidation performance of W-Doped BiVO4 photoanodes coupled to V2O5 rods as a photoabsorber and hole carrier.(2018) Oliveira, Andreia Teixeira de; Rodriguez, Mariandry del Valle Rodriguez; Andrade, Tatiana Santos; Souza, Helen E. A. de; Ardisson, José Domingos; Oliveira, Henrique dos Santos; Oliveira, Luiz Carlos Alves de; Lorençon, Eudes; Silva, Adilson Cândido da; Nascimento, Lucas Leão; Patrocinio, Antonio Otavio de Toledo; Pereira, Márcio CésarMonoclinic BiVO4 is recognized as a promising photoanode for water oxidation, but its relatively wide bandgap energy (Eg ≈2.5 eV) and poor charge transport limit the light absorption (ηabs) and charge separation (ηsep) efficiencies, thus resulting in low photocurrents. To solve these drawbacks, here the ηabs × ηsep product has been decoupled by combining W‐doped BiVO4 and V2O5 rods (Eg ≈2.1 eV) for simultaneously increasing the light harvesting and the charge separation in photoanodes under back‐side illumination. In this strategy, V2O5 rods maximize the light absorption and hole transport throughout the W‐BiVO4 film, making more holes to achieve the V2O5/W‐BiVO4/H2O interface to trigger the water oxidation reaction with photocurrents as high as 6.6 mA cm−2 at 1.23 VRHE after 2 h reaction. Notably, under back‐side illumination, the W‐BiVO4/V2O5 photoanode exhibited ηabs × ηsep of 74.5 and 93.0% at 0.5 and 1.23 VRHE, respectively, the highest values reported up to date for BiVO4‐based photoelectrodes. This simple strategy brings us closer to develop efficient photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting devices.Item Production of reduced graphene oxide platelets from graphite flakes using the Fenton reaction as an alternative to harmful oxidizing agents.(2019) Velásquez Piñas, Jean Agustin; Andrade, Tatiana Santos; Oliveira, Andreia Teixeira de; Salomão, Pedro Emílio Amador; Rodriguez, Mariandry del Valle Rodriguez; Silva, Adilson Cândido da; Oliveira, Henrique dos Santos; Monteiro, Douglas Santos; Pereira, Márcio CésarThe conventional chemical methods to produce graphene using strong oxidizing agents produce toxic gases during synthesis; therefore, these methods do not meet the principles of green chemistry. In this work, an alternative top-down method for the synthesis of a few layers of graphene sheets has been produced by a Fenton reaction- (a mixture of Fe2+/H2O2) assisted exfoliation process in water using graphite flakes as a starting material. Based on X-ray diffraction data and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy measurements, it is proposed that the oxidation of graphite by Fenton chemistry facilitates the exfoliation of graphene sheets under mild sonication. Subsequent chemical reduction with ascorbic acid produced a few layers of reduced graphene oxide. Compared to Hummers’ method, the Fenton reagent has similar exfoliation efficiency, but due to the Fenton reagent’s preference to react with the edges of graphite, the chemical reduction can lead to the formation of less defective reduced graphene oxides. Moreover, since Fe and H2O2 are cheap and environmentally innocuous, their use in large-scale graphene production is environmentally friendlier than conventional methods that use toxic oxidizing agents.