Effect of Water Adsorption on Carrier Trapping Dynamics at the Surface of Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles

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• 作者：Kenji Shirai ; Toshiki Sugimoto ; Kazuya Watanabe ; Mitsutaka Haruta ; Hiroki Kurata ; Yoshiyasu Matsumoto
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 10, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：2
• 页码：1323-1327
• 全文大小：371K
• ISSN：1530-6992

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Charge carrier trapping plays a vital role in heterogeneous photocatalytic water splitting because it strongly affects the dynamics of photogenerated charges and hence the photoconversion efficiency. Although hole trapping by water at water/photocatalyst interface is the first step of oxygen evolution in water splitting, little has been known on how water adsorbate itself is involved in hole trapping dynamics. To clarify this point, we have performed infrared transient and steady-state absorption spectroscopy of anatase TiO₂ nanoparticles as a function of the number of water adsorbate layers. Here, we demonstrate that water molecules reversibly adsorbed in the first layer on TiO₂ nanoparticles are capable to trap photogenerated holes, while water in the second layer hydrogen bonding to the first-layer water makes hole trapping less effective.