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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 27, 期 7, 页码 2414-2420出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm5044599
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- Australian Research Council [DE120101496]
- Center for Emergent Materials at the Ohio State University, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-0820414]
- Australian Research Council [DE120101496] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Three perovskite nitride oxides CeTiNO2, PrTiNO2, and NdTiNO2 have been synthesized, and their electronic structures and photocatalytic activities characterized and compared to LaTiNO2. All three compounds have band gaps that fall in the range of 2.02.1 eV, very similar to LaTiNO2, which enables them to absorb a significant fraction of the visible spectrum. Photocatalytic oxygen evolution studies under visible light irradiation in the presence of a sacrificial electron acceptor (Ag+) show that the activity of NdTiNO2 (16 mu mol/g/h) is comparable to that of LaTiNO2 (17 mu mol/g/h), while PrTiNO2 (11 mu mol/g/h) and CeTiNO2 (5 mu mol/g/h) have activities that are only 65% and 30% that of LaTiNO2. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements reveal the presence of partially occupied f-orbital states that lie in the band gap for CeTiNO2 and near the valence band maximum for PrTiNO2. As evidenced by time-resolved IR kinetic decay, these localized f-orbital states act as electronhole recombination centers that inhibit the photocatalytic activities of both compounds. On the other hand, NdTiNO2, where the f-orbital energies fall below the valence band maximum, does not suffer from this effect.
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