| Title: | Tin oxide-surface modified anatase titanium(iv) dioxide with enhanced UV-light photocatalytic activity
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| Authors: | Musashi Fujishima, Qiliang Jin, Hironori Yamamoto, Hiroaki Tada and Michael Nolan, 2012 |
| Abstract: | [Sn(acac)2]Cl2 is chemisorbed on the surfaces of anatase TiO2via ion-exchange between the complex ions and H+ released from the surface Ti–OH groups without liberation of the acetylacetonate ligand (Sn(acac)2/TiO2). The post-heating at 873 K in air forms tin oxide species on the TiO2 surface in a highly dispersed state on a molecular scale ((SnO2)m/TiO2). A low level of this p block metal oxide surface modification (0.007 Sn ions nm−2) accelerates the UV-light-activities for the liquid- and gas-phase reactions, whereas in contrast to the surface modification with d block metal oxides such as FeOx and NiO, no visible-light response is induced. Electrochemical measurements and first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for (SnO2)m/TiO2 model clusters (m = 1, 2) indicate that the bulk (TiO2)-to-surface interfacial electron transfer (BS-IET) enhances charge separation and the following electron transfer to O2 to increase the photocatalytic activity. |
| ICHEC Project: | EMOIN: Engineering Metal Oxide Interfaces |
| Publication: | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, vol. 14, p. 705 DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22708D |
| URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1cp22708d |
| Status: | Published |
