Journal
SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 603, Issue 10-12, Pages 1605-1612Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2008.11.052
Keywords
TiO2; Photochemistry; Photodesorption; Oxygen; O-2; Hydrophilic; H2O; Hydrocarbon film
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- Army Research Office
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Photochemistry from TiO2 surfaces is described for two cases: The UV-induced photodesorption of O-2 from TiO2(110) - 1 x 1; and the hydrophilic effect caused by UV irradiation on TiO2. In both cases fundamental information about how these processes occur has been found. In the case of the O-2 photodesorption kinetics, it has been found that the rate of the process is proportional to the square root of the UV flux, showing that second-order electron-hole pair recombination is dominant in governing the photodesorption rate. In addition these measurements provide an estimate of the concentration of hole traps in the TiO2 crystal. In other measurements of the UV-induced hydrophilicity, starting with the atomically-clean TiO2 surface, it has been shown that the effect occurs suddenly at a critical point during irradiation as a result of photooxidation of a monolayer of hydrocarbon (n-hexane) at equilibrium with ppm concentration of n-hexane in O-2 at 1 atmosphere pressure. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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