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Shuxin Ouyang1, Hua Tong, Naoto Umezawa
1Environmental Remediation Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan.
Abstract:
A strategy of reaction-environment modulation was employed to change the surface property of a semiconductor photocatalyst to enhance its photocatalytic performance. Surface alkalinization induced by a high alkalinity of the solution environment significantly shifted the surface energy band of a SrTiO(3) photocatalyst to a more negative level, supplying a strong potential for H(2)O reduction and consequently promoting the photocatalytic efficiency of H(2) evolution. This mechanism is also applicable for visible-light-sensitive La,Cr-codoped SrTiO(3) photocatalyst, which hence, could achieve a high apparent quantum efficiency of 25.6% for H(2) evolution in CH(3)OH aqueous solution containing 5 M NaOH at an incident wavelength of 425 ± 12 nm.
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