(Invited) Influence of Atomic Level Surface Local Structure on Photo-Induced Oxidation Reaction of Water At Single Crystal TiO2 Surface

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Haiying Wang ◽  
Zhongpo Zhou ◽  
Zhaorui Zou

In this work, undoped, N-doped, WO3-loaded undoped, and WO3-loaded with N-doped TiO2 rutile single-crystal wafers were fabricated by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering. N-doping into TiO2 and WO3 loading onto TiO2 surface were used to increase and decrease oxygen vacancies. Various measurements were conducted to analyze the structural and magnetic properties of the samples. X-ray diffraction results showed that the N-doping and WO3 loading did not change the phase of all samples. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results revealed that W element loaded onto rutile single-crystal wafers existed in the form of WO3. UV-Vis spectrometer results showed that the absorption edge of WO3-loaded undoped and WO3-loaded with N-doped TiO2 rutile single-crystal wafers had red shift, resulting in a slight decrease in the corresponding band gap. Photoluminescence spectra indicated that oxygen vacancies existed in all samples due to the postannealing atmosphere, and oxygen vacancies density increased with N-doping, while decreasing with WO3 loading onto TiO2 surface. The magnetic properties of the samples were investigated, and the saturation magnetization values were in the order N-doped > WO3-loaded with N-doped > undoped > WO3-loaded undoped rutile single-crystal wafers, which was the same order as the oxygen vacancy densities of these samples. N-doping improved the saturation magnetization values, while WO3-loaded decreased the saturation magnetization values. This paper reveals that the magnetic properties of WO3-loaded with N-doped rutile single-crystal wafers originate from oxygen vacancies.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Haile ◽  
W. T. Klooster

The structure of β-Cs3(HSO4)2[H2−x (S x P1−x )O4] has been examined by single-crystal neutron diffraction at 15 K. The compound crystallizes in space group C2/c and contains four formula units in the unit cell, with lattice parameters a = 19.769 (9), b = 7.685 (2), c = 8.858 (3) Å and β = 100.60 (4)°. Refinement of P, S and H site occupancies indicated that the value of x (in the stoichiometry) is 0.500 (6). This, together with the unit-cell volume of 1322.8 (14) Å3, implies a density of 3.463 Mg m−3. The structure contains zigzag rows of XO4 anions, where X = P or S, that alternate, in a checkerboard fashion, with zigzag rows of Cs cations. Moreover, there is one proton site, H(3), with an occupancy of 0.25 and one X-atom site, X(1), that is occupied by 0.5 P and 0.5 S. These features are in general agreement with a previous X-ray structure determination carried out at 298 K. In contrast to the X-ray study, however, it was found that two different structural models adequately fit the diffraction data. In the first model, the proton vacancies and the P atoms were assumed to be randomly distributed over the H(3) and X(1) sites, respectively, and to have no impact on the local structure. In the second model, several atoms were assigned split occupancies over two neighboring sites, to reflect the presence or absence of a proton vacancy, and the presence of P or S on the X(1) site. Refinement assuming the first model, in which anisotropic displacement parameters for 12 of 14 atom sites in the asymmetric unit were employed, yielded residuals w R(F 2) = 0.084 and w R(F) = 0.038. For the second model, in which anisotropic displacement parameters were utilized for only the five atoms that were not split relative to the first model, the residuals were w R(F 2) = 0.081 and w R(F) = 0.036.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander T. Hanke ◽  
Marieke E. Klijn ◽  
Peter D. E. M. Verhaert ◽  
Luuk A. M. van der Wielen ◽  
Marcel Ottens ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (11n12) ◽  
pp. 1641-1648 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. B. GARG ◽  
C. SANCHEZ ◽  
J. GARCIA ◽  
J. BLASCO ◽  
R. K. SINGHAL ◽  
...  

Temperature dependence of local structure of the CuO 2 plane has been studied by in plane polarized (E//ab) Cu K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments on an under-doped single crystal of superconducting La1.87Sr0.13CuO 4-y system with T c =32  K . The temperature dependence of the Debye–Waller factors for the Cu-O and Cu-La/Sr pairs are determined. We find that the motion of Cu and O atoms in the Cu-O bond is partially correlated at higher temperatures, going over to an uncorrelated motion at lower temperatures. The results are discussed in terms of the local lattice instabilities and stripes as reported in other systems.


1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuro Nakatao ◽  
Shigeru Kitagawa ◽  
Yasuo Ohta

RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (59) ◽  
pp. 31424-31427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huei-Yu Chou ◽  
Ming-Chi Tsai ◽  
Sung-Yen Wei ◽  
Yu-Hsuan Wei ◽  
Tsung-Kuang Yeh ◽  
...  

The pulse-mode potentiostatic electrodeposited single-crystal fern-like Pt nanorods enhanced the electrocatalytic activities for the methanol oxidation reaction.


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