• 한국표면공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국표면공학회 2016년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.59-75
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• 2016

Reduced or black $TiO_{2-x}$ materials with oxygen-deficiency have been achieved by creating oxygen vacancies and/or defects at the surface using different methods. Fascinatingly, they exhibited an extended absorption in VIS and IR instead of only UV light with bandgap decrease from 3.2 (anatase) to ~1 eV. However, despite the dramatic enhancement of optical absorption in black $TiO_{2-x}$ materials, they have failed to show expected visible light-assisted water splitting efficiency. This was ascribed to the high concentration of the surface defects and/or oxygen vacancies, considered as an electron donor to enhance donor density and improve the charge transportation in black $TiO_2$ can also act as charge recombination centers, which eventually decrease photocatalytic activity. Therefore, a black ot reducd $TiO_2$ material with optimized properties would be highly desired for visible light photocatalysis. In this report, a new controlled magnesiothermic reduction has been developed to synthesize reduced black $TiO_{2-x}$ in the presence $H_2/Ar$ for photocatalytic $H_2$ production from methanol-water system. The material possesses an optimum band gap and band position, oxygen vacancies, and surface defects and shows significantly improved optical absorption in the visible and infrared region. The synergistic effects enable the reduced $TiO_{2-x}$ material to show an excellent hydrogen production ability along with long-term stability under the full solar wavelength range of light and visible light, respectively, in the methanol-water system in the presence of Pt as a co-catalyst. These values are superior to those of previously reported black $TiO_2$ materials. On the basis of all the results, it can be realized that the outstanding activity and stability of the reduced of $TiO_{2-x}$ NPs suggest that a balanced combination of different factors like $Ti^{3+}$, surface defects, oxygen vacancy, and recombination center is achieved along with optimized bandgap and band position during the preparation employing magnesiothermic reduction in the presence of $H_2$. The controlled magnesiothermic reduction in the presence of $H_2$ is one of the best alternative ways to produce active and stable $TiO_2-based$ photocatalyst for $H_2$ production.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.163-177
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 전기화학적인 방법을 사용하여 Pt와 Ni 기판 상에 니켈 나이트레이트 용액을 사용하여 박막 형태의 알파 상 니켈 수산화물을 형성한 후 층간 존재하는 음이온의 종류와 농도에 따라 층상구조물의 층간 거리에 대해여 조사하였다. 층간 존재하는 나이트레이트 음이온과 양전하를 가진 층 사이의 정전 인력에 의하여 층간 거리(d003)는 층간 음이온의 농도에 역비례 하는 것으로 관찰되었으며, 특히 FT-IR 분석을 통하여 층간 거리가 감소한 경우 hydrogen-bonded OH만이 존재함을 확인하였다. GC-MS 분석 결과, 본 연구에 니켈 나이트레이트 용액을 사용하였음에도 불구하고 층간에 많은 량이 카보네이트 이온이 존재하는 것으로 조사되었다.