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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 138, 期 34, 页码 10978-10985出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b05332
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- Army Research Laboratory under ARO [64935, W911NF1410564]
- Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-PS02-08ER15944]
- National Science Foundation [CNS08-21132, DGE-1122492]
CuO is a nonhazardous, earth-abundant material that has exciting potential for use in solar cells, photocatalysis, and other optoelectronic applications. While progress has been made on the characterization of properties and reactivity of CuO, there remains significant controversy on how to control the precise band gap by tuning conditions of synthetic methods. Here, we combine experimental and theoretical methods to address the origin of the wide distribution of reported band gaps for CuO nanosheets. We establish reaction conditions to control the band gap and reactivity via a high-temperature treatment in an oxygen-rich environment. SEM, TEM, XRD, and BET physisorption reveals little to no change in nanostructure, crystal structure, or surface area. In contrast, UV-vis spectroscopy shows a modulation in the material band gap over a range of 330 meV. A similar trend is found in H-2 temperature-programmed reduction where peak H-2 consumption temperature decreases with treatment. Calculations of the density of states show that increasing the oxygen to copper coverage ratio of the surface accounts for most of the observed changes in the band gap.. An oxygen. exchange mechanism) supported by O-18(2) temperature programmed oxidation, is proposed to be responsible for changes in the CuO nanosheet oxygen to copper stoichiometry. The changes induced by oxygen depletion/deposition serve to explain discrepancies in the band gap of CuO, as reported in the literature, as well as dramatic differences in catalytic performance.
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