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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 109, 期 32, 页码 15454-15462出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp058101c
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The UV photoproduction of a hydrophilic TiO(110)(1 x 1) surface has been investigated in a pressurized ultrahigh vacuum apparatus under controlled conditions of hydrocarbon concentration in oxygen gas at I atm pressure. Water droplet contact angles have been measured continuously as the droplet is exposed to UV irradiation, yielding the first observations of a sudden wetting process during irradiation. Using hexane as a model hydrocarbon, it is found that when low partial pressures of hexane are present, the sudden onset of surface wetting occurs during UV irradiation after an induction period under photooxidation conditions. The induction period to reach the critical condition for sudden wetting increases when the partial pressure (and equilibrium surface coverage) of hexane is increased. These results indicate that the removal of adsorbed hydrocarbons by photooxidation is the critical factor leading to the UV-induced hydrophilicity phenomenon on TiO2. The phenomenon does not occur in the absence Of O-2 gas. A concept concerned with kinetic screening of the TiO2-H2O interface from O-2 by water droplets is presented to explain the observation of sudden wetting in our experiments, compared to gradual wetting which is observed following UV irradiation in all other experiments reported in the literature. Complementary infrared spectroscopy measurements of the effect of UV irradiation in an O-2 atmosphere on adsorbed Ti-OH groups and on adsorbed H2O on the surface of a high-area TiO2 powder show that no spectroscopic changes occur. This indicates that UV-induced changes in the -OH coverage or the nature of -OH bonding to TiO2, as suggested by others, cannot be used to explain the photoinduced hydrophilicity effect.
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