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Yoshitaka Tamura, Megumi Okazaki, Hiroto Ueki, Kenta Aihara, Tomoki Kanazawa, Dongxiao Fan, Rie Haruki, Akihide Iwase, Shunsuke Nozawa, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Akinori Saeki, Kazuhiko Maeda |
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ChemSusChem; 6/24/2024, Vol. 17 Issue 12, p1-7, 7p |
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The development of a highly active photocatalyst for visiblelight water splitting requires a high-quality semiconductor material and a cocatalyst, which promote both the migration of photogenerated charge carriers and surface redox reactions. In this work, a cocatalyst was loaded onto an oxyfluoride photocatalyst, Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2, to improve the water oxidation activity. Among the metal oxides examined as cocatalysts, RuO2 was found to be the most suitable, and the O2 evolution activity depended on the preparation conditions for Ru/Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2. The highest activity was obtained with RuCl3-impregnated Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2 heated under a flow of H2 at 523 K. The H2-treated Ru/Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2 showed an O2 evolution rate an order of magnitude higher than those for the analogues without the H2 treatment (e. g., RuO2/Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2). Physicochemical analyses by X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and timeresolved microwave conductivity measurements indicated that the optimized photocatalyst contained partially reduced RuO2 species with a particle size of ~5 nm. These partially reduced species effectively trapped the photogenerated charge carriers and promoted the oxidation of water into O2. The optimized Ru/Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2 could function as an O2-evolving photocatalyst in Z-scheme overall water splitting, in combination with an Ru-loaded, Rh-doped SrTiO3 photocatalyst. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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