材料科学
等离子体子
光催化
光激发
纳米颗粒
半导体
分解水
化学物理
质子
纳米技术
电子
光化学
氧气
表面等离子共振
光电子学
催化作用
原子物理学
化学
激发态
物理
量子力学
有机化学
生物化学
作者
Zhengqing Liu,Ziyang Lu,Michel Bosman,Na Li,Terry J. Frankcombe,Guohua Jia,Antonio Tricoli,Yun Liu,Yaping Du,Zongyou Yin
出处
期刊:Small
[Wiley]
日期:2018-10-17
卷期号:14 (48)
被引量:27
标识
DOI:10.1002/smll.201803233
摘要
Durability is still one of the key obstacles for the further development of photocatalytic energy-conversion systems, especially low-dimensional ones. Encouragingly, recent studies show that nanoinsulators such as SiO2 and MgO exhibit substantially enhanced photocatalytic durability than the typical semiconductor p25 TiO2 . Extending this knowledge, MgO-Au plasmonic defect nanosystems are developed that combine the stable photoactivity from MgO surface defects with energy-focusing plasmonics from Au nanoparticles (NPs), where Au NPs are anchored onto monodispersed MgO nanotemplates. Theoretical calculations reveal that the midgap defect (MGD) states in MgO are generated by oxygen vacancies, which provide the main avenues for upward electron transitions under photoexcitation. These electrons drive stable proton photoreduction to H2 gas via water splitting. A synergistic interaction between Au's localized plasmons and MgO's oxygen vacancies is observed here, which enhances MgO's photoactivity and stability simultaneously. Such co-enhancement is attributed to the stable longitudinal-plasmon-free Au NPs, which provide robust hot electrons capable of overcoming the interband transition barrier (≈1.8 eV) to reach proton reduction potential for H2 generation. The demonstrated plasmonic defect nanosystems are expected to open a new avenue for developing highly endurable photoredox systems for the integration of multifunctionalities in energy conversion, environmental decontamination, and climate change mitigation.
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