Issue 44, 2019

TiO2-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Abstract

A platinum complex, (CH3)2Pt(COD), is grafted via surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC) on morphology-controlled anatase TiO2 to generate single, isolated Pt atoms on TiO2 nano-platelets. The resulting material is characterized by FT-IR, high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HRSTEM), NMR, and XAS, and then used to perform photocatalytic water splitting. The photocatalyst with SOMC-grafted Pt shows superior performance in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and strongly suppresses the backwards reaction of H2 and O2 forming H2O under dark conditions, compared to the photocatalyst prepared by impregnation at the same Pt loading. However, single Pt atoms on this surface also rapidly coalesce into nanoparticles under photocatalytic conditions. It is also found that adsorption of CO gas at room temperature also triggers the aggregation of Pt single atoms into nanoparticles. A detailed mechanism is investigated for the mobility of Pt in the formation of its carbonyls using density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

Graphical abstract: TiO2-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Aug 2019
Accepted
23 Oct 2019
First published
24 Oct 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 24429-24440

TiO2-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

G. Jeantelot, M. Qureshi, M. Harb, S. Ould-Chikh, D. H. Anjum, E. Abou-Hamad, A. Aguilar-Tapia, J. Hazemann, K. Takanabe and J. Basset, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 24429 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP04470A

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