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Boosting Gas-Phase TiO 2 Photocatalysis with Weak Electric Field Strengths of Volt/Centimeter

Pardis Simon

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Among semiconductor nanomaterials, titanium dioxide is at the forefront of heterogeneous photocatalysis, but its catalytic activity greatly suffers from the loss of photoexcited charge carriers through deleterious recombination processes. Here, we investigate the impact of an external electric field (EEF) applied to conventional P25 TiO2 nanopowder with or without Au nanoparticles (NPs) to circumvent this issue. The study of two redox reactions in the gas phase, water splitting and toluene degradation, reveals an enhancement of the photocatalytic activity with rather modest electric fields of a few volt/centimeters only. Such an improvement arises from the electric-field-induced quenching of the green emission in anatase, allowing the photoexcited charge carriers to be transferred to the adsorbed reactants instead of pointless radiative recombinations. Applying an EEF across a trap-rich metal oxide material, such as TiO2, which, when impregnated with Au NPs, leads, respectively, to 12- and 6-fold enhancements in the production of hydrogen and the oxidation of toluene for an electric field of 8 V/cm, without any electrolysis, is a simple and elegant strategy to meet higher photocatalytic efficiencies.
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hal-04526258 , version 1 (29-03-2024)

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My Nghe Tran, Myriam Moreau, Ahmed Addad, Adrien Teurtrie, Thomas Roland, et al.. Boosting Gas-Phase TiO 2 Photocatalysis with Weak Electric Field Strengths of Volt/Centimeter. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16 (12), pp.14852-14863. ⟨10.1021/acsami.3c19031⟩. ⟨hal-04526258⟩
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