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Integrated Au/TiO2 nanostructured photoanodes for photoelectrochemical organics degradation

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Ghidelli,  Matteo
Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, 20133 Milano, Italy;
Thin Films and Nanostructured Materials, Structure and Nano-/ Micromechanics of Materials, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Matarrese, R., Mascia, M., Vacca, A., Mais, L., Usai, E. M., Ghidelli, M., et al. (2019). Integrated Au/TiO2 nanostructured photoanodes for photoelectrochemical organics degradation. Catalysts, 9(4): 340. doi:10.3390/catal9040340.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-7385-F
Abstract
In this work, hierarchical Au/TiO 2 nanostructures were studied as possible photoanodes for water splitting and bisphenol A (BPA) oxidation. TiO 2 samples were synthetized by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), while Au nanoparticles (NPs) were differently dispersed (i.e., NPs at the bottom or at the top of the TiO 2 , as well as integrated TiO 2 /Au-NPs assemblies). Voltammetric scans and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis were used to correlate the morphology of samples with their electrochemical properties; the working mechanism was investigated in the dark and in the presence of a light radiation, under neutral pH conditions towards the possible oxidation of both bisphenol A (BPA) and water molecules. Different behavior of the samples was observed, which may be attributed mainly to the distributions of Au NPs and to their dimension as well. In particular, the presence of NPs at the bottom seems to be the crucial point for the working mechanism of the structure, thanks to scattering effects that likely allow to better exploit the radiation. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.