Abstract
Surface oxygen vacancies (Ovs) may act as growth centers for Pt nanoparticles (NPs) and stabilize Pt NPs to avoid spontaneous aggregation, which practically improves the photocatalytic activity of Pt/TiO2. In this work, a defect migration strategy is developed; that is, the number of surface Ovs on Pt/TiO2 is effectively increased by migrating bulk Ovs to the surface through a vacuum annealing process. The Ov-enriched surface of Pt/TiO2 increases the proportion of active Pt species (Pt0 and Pt-OH), thus greatly facilitating the photocatalytic activity of the catalyst under visible-light irradiation. Specifically, the apparent rate constant for the typical sample of Pt-Ovs/Ti3+/TiO2 (PVTT) prepared with the defect migration strategy is about 4.44 times as much as that for the control sample (Pt-TiO2) without the contribution of Ovs.
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