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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 579, Issue -, Pages 111-113Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.06.038
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- Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [23655187]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23686114, 23655187, 23360360, 23000009] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We examined the effect of high temperature calcination on the photocatalytic activity and photoexcited electron behavior of rutile TiO2 with a small specific surface area. Photocatalytic activity for H-2 evolution was significantly decreased by calcination at temperatures higher than 500 degrees C, although the specific surface area showed little change. This deactivation was attributed to fast charge carrier recombination. Samples deactivated by high temperature calcination were reduced by hydrogen at 500 or 700 degrees C, increasing both the density of long-lived charge carriers and photocatalytic activity. These results suggest that density of oxygen vacancies is an important factor for photocatalytic reactivity. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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