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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/srep27218
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- Global Frontier R&D Program on Centre for Multiscale Energy System - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea [NRF2011-0031571]
Here, we present oxygen-deficient black ZrO2-x as a new material for sunlight absorption with a low band gap around similar to 1.5 eV, via a controlled magnesiothermic reduction in 5% H-2/Ar from white ZrO2, a wide bandgap(-5 eV) semiconductor, usually not considered for solar light absorption. It shows for the first time a dramatic increase in solar light absorbance and significant activity for solar light-induced H-2 production from methanol-water with excellent stability up to 30 days while white ZrO2 fails. Generation of large amounts of oxygen vacancies or surface defects clearly visualized by the HR-TEM and HR-SEM images is the main reason for the drastic alteration of the optical properties through the formation of new energy states near valence band and conduction band towards Fermi level in black ZrO2-x as indicated by XPS and DFT calculations of black ZrO2-x. Current reduction method using Mg and H-2 is mild, but highly efficient to produce solar light-assisted photocatalytically active black ZrO2-x.
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