Abstract
The optical and photoelectrochemical behaviour of TiO2 inverse opals and TiO2 disordered macroporous structures has been investigated by means of UV-vis spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, chronopotentiometry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. These techniques, together with photonic band structure calculations, confirmed the better absorption of light of TiO2 inverse opals, due to the slow light phenomenon, and indeed the status of metamaterials for such structures. TiO2 inverse opals and TiO2 disordered macroporous structures are shown to have the same recombination rate of photogenerated charge carriers, but TiO2 inverse opals are characterized by a better reactivity towards O2 which can also contribute to the improvement of the photocatalytic activity observed by several groups.
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