Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 264, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.118554
Keywords
Photocatalytic CH4 oxidation; CH4 sensor; ZnO; Oxygen vacancy; Pd nanoparticle
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51774191, 51802123, 21978153]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20180630]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11816]
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In this work, we present a novel CH4 oxidation photocatalyst based on oxygen vacancy-enriched ZnO nanorods/Pd nanoparticles hybrid (OV ZnO/Pd), which could be incorporated into a high-performance photocatalysis-enhanced CH4 sensor operating under visible light illumination at a relatively low temperature. By introducing visible light illumination, the CH4 response of the sensor based on OV ZnO/Pd was enhanced by 6 times compared to that in the dark. The CH4 sensing performance was found to be directly related to the photocatalytic CH4 oxidation activity of the sensing materials. O-2 temperature-programmed desorption analysis and in-situ FT-IR spectroscopy suggested the synergistic effect of oxygen vacancies and Pd nanoparticles on promoting the surface oxygen activation and catalytic CH4 oxidation over the OV ZnO/Pd hybrid. Photoelectrochemical measurements revealed a new photoexcited electron transfer pathway in the hybrid, which involved the direct transfer of hot electrons from Pd nanoparticles to the surface oxygen vacancies on ZnO.
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