Photodeposition as a facile route to tunable Pt photocatalysts for hydrogen production: on the role of methanol

Zhi Jiang; ZheYu Zhang; Wenfeng Shangguan; Mark A. Isaacs; Lee J. Durndell; Christopher M.A. Parlett; Adam F. Lee

doi:10.1039/c5cy01364j

Photodeposition as a facile route to tunable Pt photocatalysts for hydrogen production: on the role of methanol

Zhi Jiang, ZheYu Zhang, Wenfeng Shangguan^*, Mark A. Isaacs, Lee J. Durndell, Christopher M.A. Parlett, Adam F. Lee

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Photodeposition of H₂PtCl₆ in the presence of methanol promotes the formation of highly dispersed, metallic Pt nanoparticles over titania, likely via capture of photogenerated holes by the alcohol to produce an excess of surface electrons for substrate-mediated transfer to Pt complexes, resulting in a high density of surface nucleation sites for Pt reduction. Photocatalytic hydrogen production from water is proportional to the surface density of Pt metal co-catalyst, and hence photodeposition in the presence of high methanol concentrations affords a facile route to optimising photocatalyst design and highlights the importance of tuning co-catalyst properties in photocatalysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-88
Number of pages	8
Journal	Catalysis Science and Technology
Volume	6
Issue number	1
Early online date	12 Nov 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cy01364j
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2016

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Funding: Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (14ZR1421900); National Science Foundation of China (50906050); EU Marie-Curie IRSES EU-China Cooperation for Liquid Fuels from Biomass Pyrolysis (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES Grant 246772); and EPSRC (EP/K021796/1, EP/K029525/2 and EP/G007594/4 and a Leadership Fellowship).

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