Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 777, Issue -, Pages 679-687Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.11.048
Keywords
Thin films; Chemical synthesis; Catalysis; Light absorption and reflection; Tetragonal distortion
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51502249]
- Scientific Research Fund of Education Department of Sichuan Province, China [17ZA0399, 16ZA0133]
- Longshan Talent Plan Foundation of Southwest University of Science and Technology, China [17LZX655, 18LZX541]
- Scientific and Technological Innovation Team Foundation of Southwest University of Science and Technology, China [17LZXT11, 18LZXT10]
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Perovskite-type LaCoO3 thin films were deposited on (001) oriented LaSrAlO4, LaAlO3, (LaAIO(3))(0.3)(Sr2AlTaO6)(0.7) and SrTiO3 single-crystal substrates, respectively. All the films are epitaxially grown on these substrates with tetragonal distortion of CoO6 octahedrons. Due to different lattice mismatch between the film and substrate, there exists Jahn-Teller-like tetragonal distortion with out-of-plane elongated CoO6 octahedrons for LaCoO3 on LaSrAlO4 or LaAlO3 substrate, but compressed octahedrons for LaCoO3 on (LaAlO3)(0.3)(Sr2AlTaO6)(0.7) or SrTiO3. All the LaCoO3 epitaxial films, with strain-induced larger unit-cell sizes and longer Co-O bond lengths compared with those of bulk LaCoO3, exhibit obvious visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity. The photocatalytic ability increases gradually for the LaCoO3 grown on (LaAlO3)(0.3)(Sr2AlTaO6)(0.7), SrTiO3, LaAlO3 and LaSrAlO4, consistent with the increasing order of tetragonal distortion degree for CoO6 octahedrons. It reveals that the photocatalytic performance of the LaCoO3 films is closely related to the stain-induce tetragonal distortion of CoO6 octahedrons. Larger degree of tetragonal distortion can further reduce the crystal field splitting energy of CoO6 octahedrons as well as the band gap, thus enhancing the visible-light-driven photocatalytic ability of LaCoO3. The present study demonstrates that epitaxial strain is an efficient way to controllably tune the structural distortion, electronic structure, and thereby improve the photocatalytic properties of perovskite and perovskite-derived oxides. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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