Temperature programmed desorption study of pre-irradiated TiO2 anatase in the presence of ethanol. Effect of conduction band electrons on reaction selectivity

IF 2.8 3区化学 Q3 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

Chemical Physics Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI:10.1016/j.cplett.2025.141965

M.A. Nadeem , H. Idriss

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Abstract

The work addresses one of the fundamentals of photocatalytic reactions, the fate of conduction-band (CB) electrons of a photo-excited TiO₂-anatase. Some of these CB-electrons are self-trapped as large-polarons. We have studied by Infrared-spectroscopy these polarons upon UV-excitation in the presence and absence of O₂. Moreover, the effect of CB-electrons on chemical reactions was investigated by temperature-programmed-desorption. Over the non-irradiated TiO₂, the dehydration and oxidation products dominated, while over that prior UV-irradiated in the presence of ethanol the dehydrogenation product increased and the oxidation pathway was partly suppressed. These changes are attributed to CB-electrons that made the near-surface more metallic.

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Chemical Physics Letters 化学-物理：原子、分子和化学物理

CiteScore

5.70

自引率

3.60%

发文量

798

审稿时长

33 days

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