The invention provides a photoelectrochemical photoanode based on
sensitization of environment-friendly
manganese-doped
copper-
indium-
gallium-
sulfur quantum dots and a preparation method and photoelectrochemical application of the photoelectrochemical photoanode. The photoelectrochemical photoanode is a
quantum dot sensitized
titanium dioxide film photoelectrode, and the preparation method of the photoelectrochemical photoanode comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a transparent
titanium dioxide
barrier layer on conductive glass through a
spin coating method,
coating a
titanium dioxide mesoporous layer through a blade
coating method after the transparent
titanium dioxide barrier layer is dried, and performing high-temperature
calcination to obtain a mesoporous
titanium dioxide film photoelectrode; (2) synthesizing a high-quality
copper-
indium-
gallium-
sulfur quantum dot by adopting a co-heating method, and
doping a
manganese element in a high-temperature
nucleation stage to obtain a
manganese-doped
copper-
indium-
gallium-
sulfur quantum dot with high
charge separation /
transfer efficiency; and (3) soaking the mesoporous
titanium dioxide film photoelectrode in a
quantum dot /
toluene solution, depositing a
quantum dot solution by using an
electrophoretic deposition method,
drying the quantum dot solution, and carrying out ZnS
passivation treatment on the surface of the quantum dot solution to obtain the quantum dot sensitized titanium dioxide film
photoelectrochemical cell photoanode. According to the invention, an
electrode is packaged, and the quantum dot sensitized titanium dioxide film photoelectrode is used as an
anode and is assembled with a Pt counter
electrode and an Ag / AgCl
reference electrode to form the quantum dot
photoelectrochemical cell. According to the invention, the environment-friendly quantum dot
photoelectrochemical cell without heavy
metal components is realized, the photo-generated
charge separation / transfer transportation efficiency of the quantum dots is improved through element
doping, and high-performance environment-friendly quantum dot photoelectrochemical solar conversion application is further realized.