Sodium-Directed Photon-Induced Assembly Strategy for Preparing Multisite Catalysts with High Atomic Utilization EfficiencyShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, ISSN 0002-7863, E-ISSN 1520-5126, Vol. 145, no 3, p. 1759-1768Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Integrating different reaction sites offers new prospects to address the difficulties in single-atom catalysis, but the precise regulation of active sites at the atomic level remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate a sodium-directed photon-induced assembly (SPA) strategy for boosting the atomic utilization efficiency of single-atom catalysts (SACs) by constructing multifarious Au sites on TiO2 substrate. Na+ was employed as the crucial cement to direct Au single atoms onto TiO2, while the light-induced electron transfer from excited TiO2 to Au(Na+) ensembles contributed to the self-assembly formation of Au nanoclusters. The synergism between plasmonic near-field and Schottky junction enabled the cascade electron transfer for charge separation, which was further enhanced by oxygen vacancies in TiO2. Our dual-site photocatalysts exhibited a nearly 2 orders of magnitude improvement in the hydrogen evolution activity under simulated solar light, with a striking turnover frequency (TOF) value of 1533 h(-1) that exceeded other Au/TiO2-based photocatalysts reported. Our SPA strategy can be easily extended to prepare a wide range of metal-coupled nanostructures with enhanced performance for diverse catalytic reactions. Thus, this study provides a well-defined platform to extend the boundaries of SACs for multisite catalysis through harnessing metal-support interactions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AMER CHEMICAL SOC , 2023. Vol. 145, no 3, p. 1759-1768
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196935DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10690ISI: 001038060900001PubMedID: 36607337OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-196935DiVA, id: diva2:1792291
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Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [51978372, 52225308, 11974037, 52202099]; UK EPSRC [EP/S018204/2]; Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2017-122]; Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship grant [NAF\R1\191163]; Royal Society Leverhulme Trust [SRF\R1\21000153]
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