Abstract:
:Defects can greatly influence the properties of oxide materials; however, facile defect engineering of oxides at room temperature remains challenging. The generation of defects in oxides is difficult to control by conventional chemical reduction methods that usually require high temperatures and are time consuming. Here, we develop a facile room-temperature lithium reduction strategy to implant defects into a series of oxide nanoparticles including titanium dioxide (TiO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), tin dioxide (SnO2), and cerium dioxide (CeO2). Our lithium reduction strategy shows advantages including all-room-temperature processing, controllability, time efficiency, versatility and scalability. As a potential application, the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance of defective TiO2 is examined. The hydrogen evolution rate increases up to 41.8 mmol g-1 h-1 under one solar light irradiation, which is ~3 times higher than that of the pristine nanoparticles. The strategy of tuning defect oxides used in this work may be beneficial for many other related applications.
journal_name
Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Ou G,Xu Y,Wen B,Lin R,Ge B,Tang Y,Liang Y,Yang C,Huang K,Zu D,Yu R,Chen W,Li J,Wu H,Liu LM,Li Ydoi
10.1038/s41467-018-03765-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-04-03 00:00:00pages
1302issue
1issn
2041-1723pii
10.1038/s41467-018-03765-0journal_volume
9pub_type
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