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Photocatalytic water oxidation under visible light by valence band controlled oxynitride solid solutions LaTaON2-SrTiO3

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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 3, Issue 22, Pages 11824-11829

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta02482j

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  1. MEXT, Japan [24107004, 2406]
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24107004] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Solid solutions between LaTaON2 and SrTiO3 were successfully synthesized. In this solid solution, the valence band maxima (VBM) shifted to positive sides as the fraction of SrTiO3 increased, resulting in the appearance of activity for O-2 evolution even without any cocatalysts. Despite widening of the band gap (E-g) by only 0.15 eV, La0.5Sr0.5Ta0.5Ti0.5O2N gained 0.5 V larger driving force for water oxidation, which corresponds to the potential difference between VBM and potential for water oxidation, than LaTaON2. It suggested that the contribution of Ti 3d to the conduction band suppressed the widening of E-g. This is an interesting feature in the present LaTaON2-SrTiO3 solid solution. The bare La0.5Sr0.5Ta0.5Ti0.5O2N exhibited the activity for O-2 evolution 9 times higher than LaTaON2 modified with a CoOx cocatalyst. It has been found that the driving force for water oxidation of La0.5Sr0.5Ta0.5Ti0.5O2N was 0.8 V, and was larger than those in other perovskite-type oxynitrides.

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