Plasmonic CoO-Decorated Au Nanorods for Photoelectrocatalytic Water Oxidation

被引:22
作者
Ghosh, Piue [2 ]
Kar, Ashish [1 ]
Khandelwal, Shikha [1 ]
Vyas, Divya [1 ]
Mir, Ab Qayoom [1 ]
Chakraborty, Arup Lal [2 ]
Hegde, Ravi S. [2 ]
Sharma, Sudhanshu [1 ]
Dutta, Arnab [1 ]
Khatue, Saumyakanti [1 ]
机构
[1] Indian Inst Technol Gandhinagar, Discipline Chem, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
[2] Indian Inst Technol Gandhinagar, Discipline Elect Engn, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
关键词
photocatalysis; plasmonic catalysis; gold nanorod; plasmonic antenna-reactor; photocatalytic water oxidation; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ENERGY; SOLAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; CONVERSION; DRIVEN; CHARGE;
D O I
10.1021/acsanm.9b01258
中图分类号
TB3 [工程材料学];
学科分类号
0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
Harvesting the full bandwidth of the solar spectrum, especially the near-infrared portion, remains a challenge for solar-to-fuel conversion technology. Plasmonic nanostructures have recently attracted attention in this connection due to their enhanced yet tunable broadband absorption and photochemical stability. Here we report a nanoplasmonic photocatalytic construct by decorating plasmonic Au nanorods with CoO for harvesting visible and NIR light via the photoelectrochemical water oxidation reaction (WOR). In contrast to previous reports of plasmonic photocatalyst constructs, our structure does not require complicated fabrication or rely on rare-earth heavy-atom elements and exhibits excellent photostability without leaching of either cobalt or gold into the reaction solution under photoelectrochemical conditions. This catalytic construct triggered photoelectrochemical WOR with the generation of significant photocurrent (similar to 100 mu A cm(-2)) while producing photogenerated oxygen at 18.1 mmol h(-1) and hydrogen at 40.2 mmol h(-1) (on the counter electrode) per milligram of cobalt under broadband excitation of 410-1700 nm with photon-to-oxygen conversion efficiency of similar to 0.05% in neutral aqueous conditions. The broadband photocatalytic activity of CoO-decorated Au nanorods was attributed to the hot holes generated by the photoexcitation of plasmonic gold nanorods.
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页码:5795 / 5803
页数:17
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