Systematic Development and Characterisation of Photoelectrodes for Light-Driven Water Splitting

This thesis aims to develop and expand procedures towards the fabrication of high performance photoelectrodes for light-driven water splitting in a systematic and rational manner. The nature of work within each chapter covers a broad range of techniques and objectives, exploring: bottom-up approaches to fabrication, optimal methods to increase the complexity of an electrode without changing the predominant material, and designing new methods to gain deeper understanding of materials and enable more informed optimisation.