材料科学
光催化
拉曼光谱
带隙
光化学
分解水
太阳能燃料
紫外线
空位缺陷
可见光谱
辐照
化学工程
纳米技术
光电子学
光学
催化作用
化学
结晶学
生物化学
物理
工程类
核物理学
作者
Shyam Babu,Vempuluru Navakoteswara Rao,Dharmapura H. K. Murthy,Mahesh Shastri,M. Krishna Murthy,Manjunath Shetty,Kumar Raju,Prasanna D. Shivaramu,C. S. Ananda Kumar,M.V. Shankar,Dinesh Rangappa
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.10.026
摘要
TiO2 is the extensively investigated materials for various photocatalytic reforming and water splitting. Superior stability towards photo-corrosion, appropriate band energy levels driving most photocatalytic reactions, and low-cost production are promising features of TiO2. However, a primary limitation with TiO2 is that it only absorbs ultraviolet light constituting less than 5% of the solar spectrum. In this work, we use a facile, low temperature, vacuum-free, and solution-route synthesis approach to rationally induce oxygen vacancy/Ti3+ defects to reduce the bandgap of TiO2 to 2.0 eV (3.2 eV for pristine white TiO2) to form brown TiO2 with enhanced visible-light absorption. The mechanism of defect formation is systematically deduced from the detailed investigation through Raman spectroscopy, spin-sensitive technique, high-resolution microscopy, and surface analysis. The brown TiO2 yielded 8.1 mmol h−1g−1cat H2 evolution without any cocatalyst under natural sunlight, which is a factor two higher than pristine (white) TiO2. To the best of our knowledge, the observed H2 evolution rate is the highest reported value under natural sunlight for any TiO2-based photocatalyst. This work demonstrates the applicability of brown TiO2 to fabricate large-area photocatalyst panels for the cost-effective production of solar H2.
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