A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis

Zhao, Jie; Nguyen, Son C.; Ye, Rong; Ye, Baihua; Weller, Horst; Somorjai, Gábor A.; Alivisatos, A. Paul; Toste, F. Dean

doi:10.1021/acscentsci.7b00122

Title: A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis

Abstract

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Light driven excitation of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) has emerged as a potential strategy to generate hot carriers for photocatalysis through excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). In contrast, carrier generation through excitation of interband transitions remains a less explored and underestimated pathway for photocatalytic activity. Photoinduced oxidative etching of GNPs with FeCl 3 was investigated as a model reaction in order to elucidate the effects of both types of transitions. The quantitative results show that interband transitions more efficiently generate hot carriers and that those carriers exhibit higher reactivity as compared to those generated solely by LSPR. Further, leveraging the strong -acidic character of the resulting photogenerated Au + hole, an interband transition induced cyclization reaction of alkynylphenols was developed. Notably, alkyne coordination to the Au + hole intercepts the classic oxidation event and leads to the formation of the catalytically active gold clusters on subnanometer scale.

Authors:

Zhao, Jie;

; Ye, Rong; Ye, Baihua;

;

; Alivisatos, A. Paul;

Publication Date:: Mon May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1356866

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1361541; OSTI ID: 1379860

Grant/Contract Number:: DEAC02-05CH11231; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: ACS Central Science

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: ACS Central Science; Journal ID: ISSN 2374-7943

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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                    Zhao, Jie, Nguyen, Son C., Ye, Rong, Ye, Baihua, Weller, Horst, Somorjai, Gábor A., Alivisatos, A. Paul, and Toste, F. Dean. A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Zhao, Jie, Nguyen, Son C., Ye, Rong, Ye, Baihua, Weller, Horst, Somorjai, Gábor A., Alivisatos, A. Paul, & Toste, F. Dean. A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00122

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                    Zhao, Jie, Nguyen, Son C., Ye, Rong, Ye, Baihua, Weller, Horst, Somorjai, Gábor A., Alivisatos, A. Paul, and Toste, F. Dean. Mon .  
"A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00122.

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  title        = {A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis},

  author       = {Zhao, Jie and Nguyen, Son C. and Ye, Rong and Ye, Baihua and Weller, Horst and Somorjai, Gábor A. and Alivisatos, A. Paul and Toste, F. Dean},

  abstractNote = {© 2017 American Chemical Society. Light driven excitation of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) has emerged as a potential strategy to generate hot carriers for photocatalysis through excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). In contrast, carrier generation through excitation of interband transitions remains a less explored and underestimated pathway for photocatalytic activity. Photoinduced oxidative etching of GNPs with FeCl 3 was investigated as a model reaction in order to elucidate the effects of both types of transitions. The quantitative results show that interband transitions more efficiently generate hot carriers and that those carriers exhibit higher reactivity as compared to those generated solely by LSPR. Further, leveraging the strong -acidic character of the resulting photogenerated Au + hole, an interband transition induced cyclization reaction of alkynylphenols was developed. Notably, alkyne coordination to the Au + hole intercepts the classic oxidation event and leads to the formation of the catalytically active gold clusters on subnanometer scale.},

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Gold Nanoparticles Located at the Interface of Anatase/Rutile TiO ₂ Particles as Active Plasmonic Photocatalysts for Aerobic Oxidation
journal, April 2012

Visible light-induced photocatalytic reaction of gold-modified titanium(iv) oxide particles: action spectrum analysis
journal, January 2009

Small Gold Clusters Formed in Solution Give Reaction Turnover Numbers of 107 at Room Temperature
journal, December 2012

A Pt-Cluster-Based Heterogeneous Catalyst for Homogeneous Catalytic Reactions: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Reaction Kinetic Studies of Their Activity and Stability against Leaching
journal, August 2011

Growing gold nanoprisms with light
journal, July 2016

Limits of localized heating by electromagnetically excited nanoparticles
journal, September 2006

Photocatalytic Enhancements to the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol by Resonantly Excited Triangular Gold–Copper Nanostructures
journal, July 2015

In Situ IR and X-ray High Spatial-Resolution Microspectroscopy Measurements of Multistep Organic Transformation in Flow Microreactor Catalyzed by Au Nanoclusters
journal, February 2014

Mechanism of supported gold nanoparticles as photocatalysts under ultraviolet and visible light irradiation
journal, January 2009

Gold photosensitized SrTiO3 for visible-light water oxidation induced by Au interband transitions
journal, January 2014

Control of selectivity in heterogeneous catalysis by tuning nanoparticle properties and reactor residence time
journal, September 2012

Nanogold plasmonic photocatalysis for organic synthesis and clean energy conversion
journal, January 2014

Atomically Precise Colloidal Metal Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Opportunities
journal, September 2016

Ligand Effects and Ligand Design in Homogeneous Gold(I) Catalysis
journal, March 2012

Ligand Effects in Homogeneous Au Catalysis
journal, August 2008

Effect of aqueous and ambient atmospheric environments on plasmon-driven selective reduction reactions
journal, June 2015

Facile in situ synthesis of visible-light plasmonic photocatalysts M@TiO2 (M = Au, Pt, Ag) and evaluation of their photocatalytic oxidation of benzene to phenol
journal, January 2011

Polymer-Encapsulated Metallic Nanoparticles as a Bridge Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
journal, November 2014

Identification of Active Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Supports for CO Oxidation
journal, September 2008

Controlling the Selectivity of the Surface Plasmon Resonance Mediated Oxidation of p -Aminothiophenol on Au Nanoparticles by Charge Transfer from UV-excited TiO ₂
journal, April 2015

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Activation of Alkynes for the Construction of Molecular Complexity
journal, April 2015

Photochemical transformations on plasmonic metal nanoparticles
journal, May 2015

In Situ Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Study of Plasmon-Driven Catalytic Reactions of 4-Nitrothiophenol under a Controlled Atmosphere
journal, February 2015

Converting homogeneous to heterogeneous in electrophilic catalysis using monodisperse metal nanoparticles
journal, November 2009

Asymmetric Catalysis at the Mesoscale: Gold Nanoclusters Embedded in Chiral Self-Assembled Monolayer as Heterogeneous Catalyst for Asymmetric Reactions
journal, March 2013