Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 10, Issue 39, Pages 18576-18585Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8nr03801e
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- Australian Research Council [DP150103006, DP170104831]
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Due to its strong redox ability, high stability, cost effectiveness and non-toxicity, cerium oxide (CeO2) has been extensively researched as an active photocatalyst material. The underlying photocatalytic reactions are mostly associated with the transportation of oxygen ions through vacancies, but the actual transport phenomenon had not been clearly understood. In this work, gadolinium (Gd) is sequentially doped into CeO2 to investigate how extrinsic doping can modulate oxygen vacancies in CeO2 and influence photocatalytic activities. From our investigations, it was found that the Gd doping may induce structural symmetry breaking leading to a pure CeO2 fluorite structure that transforms mobile oxygen vacancies into clustered or immobile vacancies. When the vacancies were set as mobile (for Gd doping levels <= 15 at%), maximum photocatalytic activities were obtained. In contrast, suppressed photocatalytic efficiencies were noted for higher Gd doping levels (20 at% or more). The results reported in this research may provide an extra degree of freedom in the form of extrinsic doping to configure the oxygen vacancy defects and their mobility to achieve better catalytic efficiencies.
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