Tirumala, Ravi Teja A and Gyawali, Sunil and Wheeler, Aaron and Ramakrishnan, Sundaram Bhardwaj and Sooriyagoda, Rishmali and Mohammadparast, Farshid and Tan, Susheng and Kalkan, A Kaan and Bristow, Alan D and Andiappan, Marimuthu
Structure-Property-Performance Relationships of Cuprous Oxide Nanostructures for Dielectric Mie Resonance-Enhanced Photocatalysis.
Abstract
Nanostructured metal oxides, such as Cu2O, CeO2, {\alpha}-Fe2O3, and TiO2 can efficiently mediate photocatalysis for solar-to-chemical energy conversion and pollution remediation. In this contribution, we report a novel approach, dielectric Mie resonance-enhanced photocatalysis, to enhance the catalytic activity of metal oxide photocatalysts. Specifically, we demonstrate that Cu2O nanostructures exhibiting dielectric Mie resonances can exhibit up to an order of magnitude higher photocatalytic rate as compared to Cu2O nanostructures not exhibiting dielectric Mie resonances. Our finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation and experimental results predict a volcano-type relationship between the photocatalytic rate and the size of Cu2O nanospheres and nanocubes. Using transient absorption measurements, we reveal that a coherent electronic process associated with dielectric Mie resonance-mediated charge carrier generation is dominant in Cu2O nanostructures that exhibit higher photocatalytic rates. Although we experimentally demonstrate dielectric Mie resonance-enhanced photocatalysis using Cu2O particles here, based on our FDTD simulations, we anticipate the same can be achieved with other metal oxide photocatalysts, including CeO2, {\alpha}-Fe2O3, and TiO2.
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Tirumala, Ravi Teja A | | | | Gyawali, Sunil | | | | Wheeler, Aaron | | | | Ramakrishnan, Sundaram Bhardwaj | | | | Sooriyagoda, Rishmali | | | | Mohammadparast, Farshid | | | | Tan, Susheng | sut6@pitt.edu | SUT6 | 0000-0002-6162-7443 | Kalkan, A Kaan | | | | Bristow, Alan D | | | | Andiappan, Marimuthu | | | |
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physics.app-ph, physics.app-ph, cond-mat.mtrl-sci, physics.optics |
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Combined draft. Both Main draft & SI. Total of 62 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2109.13285 |
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13 Dec 2021 15:21 |
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23 Jan 2022 03:55 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42064 |
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