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Published March 21, 2017 | Supplemental Material + Published
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Solar fuels photoanode materials discovery by integrating high-throughput theory and experiment

Abstract

The limited number of known low-band-gap photoelectrocatalytic materials poses a significant challenge for the generation of chemical fuels from sunlight. Using high-throughput ab initio theory with experiments in an integrated workflow, we find eight ternary vanadate oxide photoanodes in the target band-gap range (1.2–2.8 eV). Detailed analysis of these vanadate compounds reveals the key role of VO_4 structural motifs and electronic band-edge character in efficient photoanodes, initiating a genome for such materials and paving the way for a broadly applicable high-throughput-discovery and materials-by-design feedback loop. Considerably expanding the number of known photoelectrocatalysts for water oxidation, our study establishes ternary metal vanadates as a prolific class of photoanode materials for generation of chemical fuels from sunlight and demonstrates our high-throughput theory–experiment pipeline as a prolific approach to materials discovery.

Additional Information

© 2017 National Academy of Sciences. Approved February 6, 2017; received for review December 4, 2016; published online before print March 6, 2017. The authors thank Anubhav Jain and Joel Haber for helpful discussions. Computational work was supported by the Materials Project Predictive Modeling Center through the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under Contract DE-AC02–05CH11231. Experimental work was performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the US DOE (Award DE-SC0004993). Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US DOE under Contract DE-AC02–05CH11231. Computational resources were also provided by the DOE through the National Energy Supercomputing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the US DOE under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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