Length-Dependent Photoreactivity in Highly Active Brookite Titania Nanorods

Cargnello, Matteo

Monday, June 15, 2015

Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)

Matteo Cargnello^1,2, Tiziano Montini³, Sergey Smolin⁴, Jacqueline Priebe⁵, Thomas Gordon², Yupeng Lu², Jason Baxter⁴, Angelika Brückner⁵, Paolo Fornasiero³ and Christopher Murray², (1)Stanford University, USA, (2)University of Pennsylvania, USA, (3)University of Trieste, Italy, (4)Drexel University, USA, (5)Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Germany.

We show that the photocatalytic activity of brookite TiO₂ nanorods is length-dependent. We attribute the high activity to both the 1-D nature of the nanostructure, which favors electron-hole separation, and to the defective structure of the rods, which causes favorable changes in electron-hole recombination processes.

Extended Abstracts:

mcargnello - brookite - NAM24 - template.pdf (71.3KB) - Extended Abstract

P-Mo-B-80 Length-Dependent Photoreactivity in Highly Active Brookite Titania Nanorods