Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Facilitates Indium Oxide CO2 Photocatalysis.
Nhat Truong NguyenTingjiang YanLu WangJoel Yi Yang LohPaul N DuchesneChengliang MaoPei-Cheng LiAbdinoor A JelleMeikun XiaMireille GhoussoubNazir P KheraniZheng-Hong LuGeoffrey A OzinPublished in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2020)
Nanoscale titanium nitride TiN is a metallic material that can effectively harvest sunlight over a broad spectral range and produce high local temperatures via the photothermal effect. Nanoscale indium oxide-hydroxide, In2 O3- x (OH)y , is a semiconducting material capable of photocatalyzing the hydrogenation of gaseous CO2 ; however, its wide electronic bandgap limits its absorption of photons to the ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum. Herein, the benefits of both nanomaterials in a ternary heterostructure: TiN@TiO2 @In2 O3- x (OH)y are combined. This heterostructured material synergistically couples the metallic TiN and semiconducting In2 O3- x (OH)y phases via an interfacial semiconducting TiO2 layer, allowing it to drive the light-assisted reverse water gas shift reaction at a conversion rate greatly surpassing that of its individual components or any binary combinations thereof.
Keyphrases
- visible light
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- oxide nanoparticles
- quantum dots
- reduced graphene oxide
- ionic liquid
- atomic force microscopy
- photodynamic therapy
- optical coherence tomography
- drug delivery
- molecular dynamics simulations
- magnetic resonance
- room temperature
- cancer therapy
- gold nanoparticles
- drug release
- high speed
- carbon dioxide
- electron microscopy