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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 126, Issue 15, Pages 4943-4950Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0315199
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Photoexcited semiconductor nanoparticles undergo charge equilibration when they are in contact with metal nanoparticles. Such a charge distribution has direct influence in dictating the energetics of the composite by shifting the Fermi level to more negative potentials. The transfer of electrons to Au nanoparticles has now been probed by exciting TiO2 nanoparticles under steady-state and laser pulse excitation. Equilibration with the C-60/C-60(-) redox couple provides a means to determine the apparent Fermi level of the TiO2-Au composite system. The size-dependent shift in the apparent Fermi level of the TiO2-Au composite (20 mV for 8-nm diameter and 40 mV for 5-nm and 60 mV for 3-nm gold nanoparticles) shows the ability of Au nanoparticles to influence the energetics by improving the photoinduced charge separation. Isolation of individual charge-transfer steps from UV-excited TiO2 --> Au --> C-60 has provided mechanistic and kinetic information on the role of metal in semiconductor-assisted photocatalysis and size-dependent catalytic activity of metal-semiconductor nanocomposites.
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