The invention discloses a
bismuth vanadate photo-
anode and a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation method comprises the steps that a
bismuth vanadate layer and a carbon spherelayer are sequentially prepared on the surface of a transparent conductive substrate, then the
bismuth vanadate layer and the carbon sphere layer are repeatedly prepared, an
active layer is formed onthe surface of the transparent conductive substrate, and the
active layer is formed by stacking n
bismuth vanadate layers and n-1 carbon sphere
layers in a staggered mode, the outermost
layers of thetwo sides of the
active layer are
bismuth vanadate layers, and n is a natural number greater than 1; the
bismuth vanadate precursor solution is subjected to spin-
coating to form a bismuth vanadate precursor film, and then
drying and calcining are carried out on the bismuth vanadate precursor film to form a bismuth vanadate layer; wherein the bismuth vanadate precursor solution contains
vanadium salt and bismuth salt; the carbon sphere dispersion liquid is subjected to spin-
coating into a carbon sphere film, and
drying is carried out to form the carbon sphere film. The bismuth vanadate photo-
anode provided by the invention has relatively
high electron hole separation efficiency and rapid water oxidation
kinetics, so that the bismuth vanadate photo-
anode can achieve relatively high
photocurrent density under relatively low bias
voltage, and shows relatively high
solar energy utilization rate.