Electric Field-Driven Nanoreactor Strategy for Rapid Fabrication of CRO Photocathodes toward Efficient Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution.

Key Points

• The aim is to develop a rapid and efficient strategy for fabricating CRO photocathodes for hydrogen evolution.
• Utilized an electric field-assisted micellar strategy for deposition of CRO materials.
• Focused on three porphyrin-based CRO materials: CRO-DafTp, CRO-DfoTp, and CRO-SaTp.
• Emphasized scalability and environmental sustainability in the fabrication process.
• Achieved hydrogen evolution at 0.4 V versus RHE.
• Demonstrated broad structural adaptability in CRO photocathode production.
• Showed comparable performance among the three different porphyrin-based materials.