锐钛矿
材料科学
异质结
光催化
非阻塞I/O
X射线光电子能谱
制氢
氧化物
化学工程
分解水
纳米材料
纳米技术
氢
光电子学
催化作用
化学
冶金
有机化学
工程类
生物化学
作者
M. T. Uddin,Yohann Nicolas,Céline Olivier,Wolfram Jaegermann,Nils Rockstroh,Henrik Junge,Thierry Toupance
摘要
Earth-abundant NiO/anatase TiO2 heteronanostructures were prepared by a straightforward one-pot sol-gel synthetic route followed by a suitable thermal post-treatment. The resulting 0.1-4 wt% NiO-decorated anatase TiO2 nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, Raman and UV-visible spectroscopy and N2 sorption analysis, and showed both nanocrystallinity and mesoporosity. The careful determination of the energy band alignment diagram by a suitable combination of XPS/UPS and absorption spectroscopy data revealed significant band bending at the interface of the p-n NiO/anatase TiO2 heterojunction nanoparticles. Furthermore, these heterojunction photocatalysts exhibited an improved photocatalytic activity in H2 production by methanol photoreforming compared to pure anatase TiO2 and commercial P25. Thus, an average H2 production rate of 2693 μmol h-1 g-1 was obtained for the heterojunction of a 1 wt% NiO/anatase photocatalyst, which is one of the most efficient NiO/anatase TiO2 systems ever reported. An enhanced dissociation efficiency of the photogenerated electron-hole pairs resulting from an internal electric field developed at the interface of the NiO/anatase TiO2 p-n heterojunctions is suggested to be the reason of this enhanced photocatalytic activity.
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