Visible Light-Driven H 2 Production over Highly Dispersed Ruthenia on Rutile TiO 2 Nanorods

Nguyen-Phan, Thuy-Duong; Luo, Si; Vovchok, Dimitriy; Llorca, Jordi; Graciani, Jesús; Sanz, Javier Fernández; Sallis, Shawn; Xu, Wenqian; Bai, Jianming; Piper, Louis F.  J.; Polyansky, Dmitry E.; Fujita, Etsuko; Senanayake, Sanjaya D.; Stacchiola, Dario J.; Rodriguez, José A.

doi:10.1021/acscatal.5b02318

Visible Light-Driven H ₂ Production over Highly Dispersed Ruthenia on Rutile TiO ₂ Nanorods

Journal Article · Sun Jan 03 23:00:00 EST 2016 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b02318· OSTI ID:1249508

Nguyen-Phan, Thuy-Duong; Luo, Si; Vovchok, Dimitriy; Llorca, Jordi; Graciani, Jesús; Sanz, Javier Fernández; Sallis, Shawn; Xu, Wenqian; Bai, Jianming; Piper, Louis F. J.; Polyansky, Dmitry E.; Fujita, Etsuko; Senanayake, Sanjaya D.; Stacchiola, Dario J.; Rodriguez, José A.

The immobilization of miniscule quantities of RuO₂ (~0.1%) onto one-dimensional (1D) TiO₂ nanorods (NRs) allows H₂ evolution from water under visible light irradiation. Rod-like rutile TiO₂ structures, exposing preferentially (110) surfaces, are shown to be critical for the deposition of RuO₂ to enable photocatalytic activity in the visible region. The superior performance is rationalized on the basis of fundamental experimental studies and theoretical calculations, demonstrating that RuO₂(110) grown as 1D nanowires on rutile TiO₂(110), which occurs only at extremely low loads of RuO₂, leads to the formation of a heterointerface that efficiently adsorbs visible light. The surface defects, band gap narrowing, visible photoresponse, and favorable upward band bending at the heterointerface drastically facilitate the transfer and separation of photogenerated charge carriers

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1249508

Journal Information:: ACS Catalysis, Journal Name: ACS Catalysis Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 6; ISSN 2155-5435

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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