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Hydrothermal synthesis of iridium-substituted NaTaO3 perovskites
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Burnett, David L., Vincent, Christopher D., Clayton, Jasmine A., Kashtiban, Reza J. and Walton, Richard I. (2021) Hydrothermal synthesis of iridium-substituted NaTaO3 perovskites. Nanomaterials, 11 (6). 1537. doi:10.3390/nano11061537
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061537
Abstract
Iridium-containing NaTaO3 is produced using a one-step hydrothermal crystallisation from Ta2O5 and IrCl3 in an aqueous solution of 10 M NaOH in 40 vol H2O2 heated at 240 °C. Although a nominal replacement of 50 of Ta by Ir was attempted, the amount of Ir included in the perovskite oxide was only up to 15 mol. The materials are formed as crystalline powders comprising cube-shaped crystallites around 100 nm in edge length, as seen by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Energy dispersive X-ray mapping shows an even dispersion of Ir through the crystallites. Profile fitting of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) shows expanded unit cell volumes (orthorhombic space group Pbnm) compared to the parent NaTaO3, while XANES spectroscopy at the Ir LIII-edge reveals that the highest Ir-content materials contain Ir4+. The inclusion of Ir4+ into the perovskite by replacement of Ta5+ implies the presence of charge-balancing defects and upon heat treatment the iridium is extruded from the perovskite at around 600 C in air, with the presence of metallic iridium seen by in situ powder XRD. The highest Ir-content material was loaded with Pt and examined for photocatalytic evolution of H2 from aqueous methanol. Compared to the parent NaTaO3, the Ir-substituted material shows a more than ten-fold enhancement of hydrogen yield with a significant proportion ascribed to visible light absorption.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Perovskite, Nanostructured materials, Nanocrystals, Photocatalysis, Crystallization | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nanomaterials | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI Publishing | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1847-9804 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 10 June 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 1537 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/nano11061537 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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