Three-dimensional ruthenium-doped TiO2 sea urchins for enhanced visible-light-responsive H2 production

Nguyen-Phan, Thuy -Duong; Luo, Si; Vovchok, Dimitriy; Llorca, Jordi; Sallis, Shawn; Kattel, Shyam; Xu, Wenqian; Piper, Louis F. J.; Polyansky, Dmitry E.; Senanayake, Sanjaya D.; Stacchiola, Dario J.; Rodriguez, Jose A.

doi:10.1039/c6cp00472e

Three-dimensional ruthenium-doped TiO₂ sea urchins for enhanced visible-light-responsive H₂ production

Journal Article · Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp00472e· OSTI ID:1337641

Nguyen-Phan, Thuy -Duong ^[1]; Luo, Si ^[2]; Vovchok, Dimitriy ^[2]; Llorca, Jordi ^[3]; Sallis, Shawn ^[4]; Kattel, Shyam ^[1]; Xu, Wenqian ^[5]; Piper, Louis F. J. ^[4]; Polyansky, Dmitry E. ^[1]; Senanayake, Sanjaya D. ^[1]; Stacchiola, Dario J. ^[1]; Rodriguez, Jose A. ^[2]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Univ. Politecnia de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)
Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Here, three-dimensional (3D) monodispersed sea urchin-like Ru-doped rutile TiO₂ hierarchical architectures composed of radially aligned, densely-packed TiO₂ nanorods have been successfully synthesized via an acid-hydrothermal method at low temperature without the assistance of any structure-directing agent and post annealing treatment. The addition of a minuscule concentration of ruthenium dopants remarkably catalyzes the formation of the 3D urchin structure and drives the enhanced photocatalytic H₂ production under visible light irradiation, not possible on undoped and bulk rutile TiO₂. Increasing ruthenium doping dosage not only increases the surface area up to 166 m² g^–1 but also induces enhanced photoresponse in the regime of visible and near infrared light. The doping introduces defect impurity levels, i.e. oxygen vacancy and under-coordinated Ti³⁺, significantly below the conduction band of TiO₂, and ruthenium species act as electron donors/acceptors that accelerate the photogenerated hole and electron transfer and efficiently suppress the rapid charge recombination, therefore improving the visible-light-driven activity.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

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

OSTI ID:: 1337641

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1390839

Report Number(s):: BNL--113278-2016-JA; KC0302010

Journal Information:: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Journal Name: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 18; ISSN 1463-9076; ISSN PPCPFQ

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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