An Investigation into the Optimum Thickness of Titanium Dioxide thin films synthesized by using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition for use in photocatalytic water oxidation
An Investigation into the Optimum Thickness of Titanium Dioxide thin films synthesized by using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition for use in photocatalytic water oxidation
Twenty eight films of titanium dioxide of varying thickness were synthesised by using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of titanium(IV) chloride and ethyl acetate onto glass and titanium substrates. Fixed reaction conditions at a substrate temperature of 660?°C were used for all depositions, with varying deposition times of 5–60 seconds used to control the thickness of the samples. A sacrificial electron acceptor system composed of alkaline sodium persulfate was used to determine the rate at which these films could photo-oxidise water in the presence of 365?nm light. The results of this work showed that the optimum thickness for CVD films on titanium substrates for the purposes of water oxidation was ?200?nm, and that a platinum coating on the reverse of such samples leads to a five-fold increase in the observed rate of water oxidation
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Hyett, Geoffrey
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10 September 2010
Hyett, Geoffrey
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Darr, Jawwad A.
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Hyett, Geoffrey, Darr, Jawwad A., Mills, Andrew and Parkin, Ivan P.
(2010)
An Investigation into the Optimum Thickness of Titanium Dioxide thin films synthesized by using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition for use in photocatalytic water oxidation.
Chemistry - A European Journal, 16 (34), .
(doi:10.1002/chem.201000260).
(PMID:20645333)
Abstract
Twenty eight films of titanium dioxide of varying thickness were synthesised by using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of titanium(IV) chloride and ethyl acetate onto glass and titanium substrates. Fixed reaction conditions at a substrate temperature of 660?°C were used for all depositions, with varying deposition times of 5–60 seconds used to control the thickness of the samples. A sacrificial electron acceptor system composed of alkaline sodium persulfate was used to determine the rate at which these films could photo-oxidise water in the presence of 365?nm light. The results of this work showed that the optimum thickness for CVD films on titanium substrates for the purposes of water oxidation was ?200?nm, and that a platinum coating on the reverse of such samples leads to a five-fold increase in the observed rate of water oxidation
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e-pub ahead of print date: July 2010
Published date: 10 September 2010
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