Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 1409-1413Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200600056
Keywords
carbon monoxide; catalysis; electrochemistry; hot electron flow; metal-semiconductor Schottky diode
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Continuous flow of ballistic charge carriers is generated by an exothermic chemical reaction and detected using the catalytic metal-semiconductor Schottky diode. We obtained a hot electron current for several hours using two types of catalytic nanaodiodes Pt/TiO2 or Pt/GaN, during carbon monoxide oxidation at pressures of 100 Torr O2 and 40 Torr of CO at 413-573 K. This result reveals that the chemical energy of an exothermic catalytic reaction is directly converted into hot electrons flux in the catalytic nanodiode. By heating the nanodiodes in He, we could measure the thermoelectric current which is in the opposite direction to the flow of the hot electron current. The chemicurrent is well correlated with the turnover rate of CO oxidation, which is separately measured with gas chromatography. The influence of the flow of hot charge carriers on the chemistry at the oxide-metal interface, and the turnover rate in the chemical reaction are discussed.
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