Competing Activation and Deactivation Mechanisms in Photodoped Bismuth Oxybromide Nanoplates Probed by Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging
| Autor: | Tianben Ding, Rohan Mishra, Bryce Sadtler, Dongyan Zhang, Khalid Mahmood, Meikun Shen, Zheyu Wang, Che Tan, Matthew D. Lew, Jiang Luo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
010405 organic chemistry business.industry Charge separation chemistry.chemical_element Charge (physics) 010402 general chemistry Single-molecule experiment Photochemistry 01 natural sciences Oxygen 0104 chemical sciences Semiconductor chemistry Vacancy defect General Materials Science Irradiation Physical and Theoretical Chemistry business Bismuth oxybromide |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11:5219-5227 |
| ISSN: | 1948-7185 |
| Popis: | Oxygen vacancies in semiconductor photocatalysts play several competing roles, serving to both enhance light absorption and charge separation of photoexcited carriers as well as act as recombination centers for their deactivation. In this Letter, we show that single-molecule fluorescence imaging of a chemically activated fluorogenic probe can be used to monitor changes in the photocatalytic activity of bismuth oxybromide (BiOBr) nanoplates in situ during the light-induced formation of oxygen vacancies. We observe that the specific activities of individual nanoplates for the photocatalytic reduction of resazurin first increase and then progressively decrease under continuous laser irradiation. Ensemble structural characterization, supported by electronic-structure calculations, shows that irradiation increases the concentration of surface oxygen vacancies in the nanoplates, reduces Bi ions, and creates donor defect levels within the band gap of the semiconductor particles. These combined changes first enhance photocatalytic activity by increasing light absorption at visible wavelengths. However, high concentrations of oxygen vacancies lower the photocatalytic activity both by introducing new relaxation pathways that promote charge recombination before photoexcited electrons can be extracted and by weakening binding of resazurin to the surface of the nanoplates. |
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