Journal
CHEMCATCHEM
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 798-804Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201501162
Keywords
hydrogen; oxidation; photocatalysis; semiconductors; surface chemistry
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51323011, 51236007]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0455]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2014KW07-02]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141212]
- Nano Research Program of Suzhou City [ZXG201442, ZXG2013003]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China [201335]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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The surface structure determines the surface electronic and chemical properties of semiconducting nanocrystals for efficient photocatalysis. Herein, SrTiO3 nanocrystals enclosed by {001} and {023} facets functionalized for photoreduction and photooxidation, respectively, were surface-reconstructed with a disordered overlayer created by a thermal hydrogenation process. These surface-reconstructed SrTiO3 nanocrystals showed much higher photocatalytic activities than the pristine SrTiO3, which was attributed to the enhanced charge transfer ability and accelerated oxidative reaction kinetics induced by the oxygen vacancies in disordered overlayer. Given the maintained {001} and {023} facets ensuring spatial charge separation and functioning for reduction and oxidation reactions, respectively, the surface-reconstructed SrTiO3 nanocrystals enclosed with {023} and {001} facets in appropriate ratio showed the highest photocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution.
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