Mechanism of photocatalytic activity improvement of AgNPs/TiO 2 by oxygen plasma irradiation

Plasmonic metal Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) on TiO thin films (AgNPs/TiO ) are a kind of excellent photocatalyst of high efficiency under visible light, and thus draw great interest nowadays. Further improvement of their photocatalytic activity (PA) is difficult but is of high importance for their appl...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nanoscale 2016-09, Vol.8 (38), p.17004-17011
Hauptverfasser: Fang, Yingcui, Zhang, Bing, Hong, Liu, Zhang, Kang, Li, Gongpu, Jiang, Jun, Yan, Rong, Chen, Junling
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Plasmonic metal Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) on TiO thin films (AgNPs/TiO ) are a kind of excellent photocatalyst of high efficiency under visible light, and thus draw great interest nowadays. Further improvement of their photocatalytic activity (PA) is difficult but is of high importance for their applications. In this paper, oxygen plasma was taken to partially oxidize AgNPs deposited on the surface of TiO to form a structure with the configuration of a p-type semiconductor/plasmonic metal/n-type semiconductor (Ag O/AgNPs/TiO ). The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of the AgNPs was strongly damped after oxygen plasma irradiation (OPI) but the photocatalytic activity was improved. The mechanisms of the photocatalytic activity improvement under UV and visible light were explored based on charge kinetics.
ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/C6NR04862E