TiO2-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
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Jeantelot, Gabriel
Qureshi, Muhammad

Harb, Moussab

Ould-Chikh, Samy

Anjum, Dalaver H.

Abou-Hamad, Edy

Aguilar-Tapia, Antonio

Hazemann, Jean-Louis

Takanabe, Kazuhiro

Basset, Jean-Marie

KAUST Department
Catalysis for Energy Conversion (CatEC)Chemical Science Program
Electron Microscopy
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Kaust Catalysis Center (KCC), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
NMR
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2019-11-02Embargo End Date
2020-11-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/660086
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A platinum complex, (CH3)2Pt(COD), is grafted via surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC) on morphology-controlled anatase TiO2 to generate single, isolated Pt atoms on TiO2 nano-platelets. The resulting material is characterized by FT-IR, high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HRSTEM), NMR, and XAS, and then used to perform photocatalytic water splitting. The photocatalyst with SOMC-grafted Pt shows superior performance in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and strongly suppresses the backwards reaction of H2 and O2 forming H2O under dark conditions, compared to the photocatalyst prepared by impregnation at the same Pt loading. However, single Pt atoms on this surface also rapidly coalesce into nanoparticles under photocatalytic conditions. It is also found that adsorption of CO gas at room temperature also triggers the aggregation of Pt single atoms into nanoparticles. A detailed mechanism is investigated for the mobility of Pt in the formation of its carbonyls using density functional theory (DFT) calculations.Citation
Jeantelot, G., Qureshi, M., Harb, M., Ould-Chikh, S., Anjum, D. H., Abou-Hamad, E., … Basset, J.-M. (2019). TiO2-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. doi:10.1039/c9cp04470aSponsors
This work was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). We warmly acknowledge the help of KAUST Core labs, and the Supercomputing Laboratory at KAUST for the CPU time attributed to this research work. The FAME-UHD project is financially supported by the French “large loan” EquipEx (EcoX, ANR-10-EQPX-27-01), the CEA-CNRS CRG consortium and the INSU CNRS institute.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Additional Links
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C9CP04470Aae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c9cp04470a