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Ag-loaded TiO2 photocatalysts prepared by photodeposition method in an argon atmosphere exhibited highly selective photocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction with water to produce CO, while the sample prepared under an air atmosphere predominantly promoted water splitting.
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1 Introduction
The increase in the atmospheric CO2 level as a result of the huge fossil fuels consumption has led researchers trying to find ways to reduce CO2 concentration [1]. In the last decades, as a new approach for this problem, photocatalytic CO2 reduction has attracted the researcher’s attention since it can convert CO2 to valuable chemicals or fuels like CO and CH4 using sunlight [2]. However, this idea has not been for actual use due to low yield and selectivity of the products yet, so the research for useful and reliable photocatalyst for CO2 reduction is still required [3].
One of the most investigated material in photocatalytic reactions would be titanium dioxide (TiO2), since it has many advantages such as chemically stable, harmless, ubiquitous, costless, and corrosion-resistant [4]. Titanium dioxide is found in nature in different crystalline phases such as anatase, rutile, and brookite [5]. The most common crystal structures are anatase and rutile, which can be photoexcited by the light of higher energy than each band gap of 3.2 eV and 3.0 eV, respectively [6]. In many cases, anatase showed superior photocatalytic response than rutile owing to its lower recombination rate [7,8,9], while P-25 (Degussa), a famous commercial TiO2 product which is a mixture of anatase phase and rutile phase, often illustrated better photocatalytic response than pure rutile or anatase [10, 11].
A usual way for improving the photocatalytic response of heterogeneous photocatalysts is noble metal loading, like Pt, Pd, Au, and Ag, as a cocatalyst. Noble metal nanoparticles such as Pt can efficiently receive photoexcited electrons from the conduction band to decrease recombination of photoexcited electron and hole, resulting in high photocatalytic activity [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Some kinds of metal nanoparticles showing a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) such as Au can provide plasmonic photocatalysis under visible light [19,20,21,22,23]. Further, in some cases metal nanoparticles such as Pd can catalyze a certain step in the photocatalytic reactions [24,25,26,27].
In photocatalytic CO2 reduction with water, cocatalyst can determine the product selectivity: Pt, Au, and Cu cocatalysts give favorably CH4 [28,29,30], while Ag cocatalysts tends to form CO preferably [31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44]. Ag cocatalyst on various materials have been reported for photocatalytic CO2 reduction with water recently, like Ag/ALa4Ti4O15 (A = Ca, Sr, and Ba) [31], Ag/KCaSrTa5O15 [32], Ag/Ga2O3 [33, 34], Ag/SrNb2O6 [35], Ag/CaTiO3 [36, 37], and Ag/Na2Ti6O13 [38, 39]. These materials can convert CO2 to CO by using water as an electron donor and the selectivity between H2 and CO as reductive products has been discussed since both photocatalytic CO2 reduction and water splitting can take place competitively.
In this study, photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Ag-loaded TiO2 photocatalyst (Ag/TiO2) was investigated, which have been reported to produce CO [40,41,42,43,44] or CH4 [45, 46] as gaseous products. This means that the state of Ag cocatalyst, the preparation method and so on would determine the product selectivity. So far, many preparation methods of Ag/TiO2 were reported such as simple silver mirror reaction [40], a microwave-assisted chemical reduction [41], cold plasma [42], hydrothermal treatment [43], electrospinning method [44], electrochemical deposition method [45], and photo-deposition method [46]. Among them, the photodeposition method is the most popular and unique method for the preparation of photocatalyst. In this method, Ag cations as the precursor in aqueous solution are reduced by photoexcited electrons to form metallic Ag nanoparticles on TiO2 surface. In this process, air is usually not welcomed since molecular oxygen easily consume the photoexcited electron.
Here, we found that the property of the Ag cocatalyst on TiO2 photocatalyst drastically varies with the atmosphere during the photodeposition procedure: the photocatalysts prepared in an argon atmosphere showed high selectivity for CO2 reduction, while the sample prepared under an air atmosphere predominantly promoted water splitting.
2 Experimental
2.1 Sample Preparation
Ag-loaded TiO2 (Ag/TiO2) samples were prepared with photo-deposition methods in two different conditions. Four types of TiO2 samples were employed from JRC (Japan reference catalysts) samples; JRC-TIO-1 (anatase), JRC-TIO-4 (mixture of anatase and rutile, equivalent to P25), JRC-TIO-6 (rutile), and JRC-TIO-14 (anatase), with a specific surface area of 75, 50, 100, and 338 m2 g−1, respectively. In method A, a suspension of 1 g of TiO2 powder in 300 mL of aqueous solution of AgNO3 in a beaker was magnetically stirred for 10 min, photoirradiated from the top side with a ceramic xenon lamp (PE300BUV, 300 W) for 120 min under continuous stirring in the air atmosphere, and filtered, followed by washing and drying in an electric oven at 373 K for 12 h and then grounded, which is referred to as Ag(x)/TiO2(A,y), where x presents loading amount of Ag in weight %, A means this method A, and if any, y shows the code number of TiO2 sample (JRC-TIO-y). In method B, 1 g of TiO2 sample (JRC-TIO-4) was suspended in 1800 mL of an aqueous solution of AgNO3 (desired concentration) and NaHCO3 (0.1 mol L−1) in a quartz reactor with bubbling flow of argon for 1 h at 60 mL min−1 to ensure no oxygen gas remained in the reactor, photoirradiated from the center of the reactor with a high pressure Hg lamp (400 W) for 120 min under continuous stirring, and successively used for the photocatalytic reaction test for CO2 reduction. The samples are referred to as Ag(x)/TiO2(B,4), where B indicates the method B.
2.2 Characterization
Diffuse reflectance (DR) UV–Visible spectra were recorded on a V-570 (JASCO) equipped with an integrating sphere covered with BaSO4. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was conducted using Al Kα X-ray source (12 kV, 1486.6 eV) and hemispherical multichannel analyser (VSM), where binding energy was calibrated with respect to Au 4f7/2 core level at 83.9 eV. The TEM image of the sample put on a carbon coated copper grid was obtained by a JEM-2100F (JEOL) at an acceleration voltage of 200 kV. Elemental mapping was obtained by EDX in the TEM operating at 200 kV (Oxford Instruments INCA EDS 80 mm X-Max detector).
2.3 Photocatalytic Reaction Test
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction test was carried out in an inner irradiation photochemical reactor equipped with a 400 W high pressure Hg lamp. In the reactor, 1 g of photocatalyst sample was suspended in 1800 mL water with NaHCO3 (0.1 mol L−1) and CO2 bubbling (60 mL min−1) for 2 h to remove air, followed by photoirradiation for 6 h. The outlet gaseous products were analyzed by a gas chromatograph (Shimadzu GC-8A, TCD), where carbon monoxide, oxygen, hydrogen and a small amount of methane were detected.
3 Results and Discussion
3.1 Characterizations
Figure 1A illustrates DR UV–Vis spectra of the four kinds of JRC TiO2 samples loaded with 1% Ag by the method A. The Ag(1)/TiO2(A,4) and Ag(1)/TiO2(A,14) samples showed a broad LSPR band, showing the existence of Ag metallic nanoparticles. Especially, the Ag(1)/TiO2(A,4) sample exhibited a large band, meaning a larger number of Ag metallic nanoparticles. In Fig. 1B, DR UV–Vis spectra of JRC-TIO-4 samples prepared by the method A with different Ag loading are presented. Among them, the samples with low loading amount (1–3 wt%) of Ag exhibited a clear LSPR peak, indicating that small loading provides Ag nanoparticles responsible to the LSPR. The samples with high loading amount (4–5 wt%) gave a small and broad LSPR band shifted to longer wavelength side, suggesting that the size of Ag nanoparticles became bigger with increasing the loading amount. Figure 1C shows the spectra of the samples prepared by the method B. Every sample exhibited a large LSPR band. Although the band position and intensity varied with increasing loading amount and the variation was somewhat complex, the LSPR bands were clearly observed on the samples prepared by the method B even for the higher loading samples compared to the samples prepared by the method A. This implies that the larger number of small Ag nanoparticles exist on the samples prepared by the method B. This can be explained by the difference of the preparation conditions. In the method A, Ag+ ions and molecular oxygen from air would competitively be reduced by the photoexcited electron, which would decrease the reduction rate of Ag+ and a large number of Ag+ would be reduced on the surface of the initially produced Ag nanoparticles. This should make the Ag particle larger. In method B, the Ag species would tend to be directly reduced by the photoexcitated electrons on the TiO2 surface without such competition, which can initially provide a large number of smaller nanoparticles deposited on the TiO2 surface.
Figure 2 illustrates TEM images of the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) and Ag(2)/TiO2(B,4) samples. The particles of 20–50 nm in size correspond to TiO2 particles in JRC-TIO-4 and small dark dots around 2–3 nm in size would be assigned to Ag nanoparticles. The Ag nanoparticles were well dispersed the TiO2 particles, and could be observed more clearly on the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) samples in the TEM images.
Energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) mappings of these samples (Fig. S1 and S2) revealed that the Ag species were well distributed in the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) sample (Fig. S1b), while many Ag species were inhomogeneously present in the Ag(2)/TiO2(B,4) sample (Fig. S2b). From the EDX, the actual loading amount of Ag species was calculated to be 0.59 and 2.1 wt% for the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) and Ag(2)/TiO2(B,4) samples, respectively. This means that the presence of molecular oxygen during the photodeposition is not suitable for quantitative loading of Ag ions on TiO2 surface from the aqueous solution (method A), while the condition free from molecular oxygen is suitable for quantitative deposition of Ag species (method B).
XPS analysis was carried out for the Ag(2)/TiO2 samples prepared by the method A and B and the bare JRC-TIO-4 sample. The photoelectron bands from Ag 3d5/2 were observed at 368.7 eV (Fig. 3A(a)) and 368.5 eV (Fig. 3B(b)) for the samples prepared by the A and B methods, respectively, where the former sample showed slightly larger binding energy and the difference was as small as 0.2 eV. In literature, binding energies of Ag 3d5/2 for Ag and Ag2O are reported as 368.1 and 367.7 eV, respectively [47, 48], and the difference is 0.4 eV. In silver oxide system, it has been known that the binding energy of Ag 3d5/2 peak exhibits a negative shift as the species is oxidized and the investigation of the exact oxidation state are not easy due to the high reactivity of Ag species to oxygen or carbon dioxide in air [49]. The present result suggests that the Ag species are rather metallic in the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) sample and rather oxidized in the Ag(2)/TiO2(B,4) sample. The Ag species in the present samples would be oxidized since they were exposed in air for a long time before the XPS measurements. Here, it can be noted that the Ag(2)/TiO2(A,4) sample exhibited broader band width as shown in Fig. 3B, suggesting the wider distribution of the oxidation state including both metallic and oxidized states. These facts consisted with the size distribution of Ag nanoparticles proposed from the UV–Vis spectra. The sample prepared by the method A having larger size of Ag nanoparticles would be partially oxidized from the surface by air exposure and the distribution of oxidation state would be wide. In the sample prepared by the method B containing the smaller Ag nanoparticles, the Ag species would be fully oxidized in air.
From these results of characterizations, the states of deposited Ag species on the samples prepared in the two different conditions were similar to but slightly different from each other. The samples prepared by the method B had larger number of small Ag nanoparticles.
3.2 Photocatalytic Activities
Photocatalytic performance of these samples were examined for the photocatalytic CO2 reduction with water. The production rates of dominant gaseous products, H2, CO and O2, were shown in Fig. 4, where H2 and CO were the products in water splitting and CO2 reduction, respectively. In these experiments O2 as a common product in both the reactions was also detected although the amount did not consist with the expected one from the ideal stoichiometric ratio, which would originate from some reasons discussed in our previous study [38].
The first set of the tests were conducted with Ag(1)/TiO2 samples prepared by the method A by using various kinds of TiO2, as shown in Fig. 4A. All the samples produced H2 as a main product, where the Ag-loaded JRC-TIO-4 sample exhibited a higher CO production rate than the other three samples. It is noticed that the order of the LSPR band intensity in the visible light region of the DR UV–Vis spectra (Fig. 1A) seems to be the same order of the CO formation rate, suggesting that the state of the Ag species as nanoparticles much contributes to the high CO formation rate and selectivity. Between the two anatase samples, the one having higher specific surface area exhibited more intense LSPR band and higher photocatalytic activity to form H2 and CO, where the selectivity to CO (SCO) was of the similar level around 13%. Among the four samples, the TiO2 sample consisting of anatase and rutile nanoparticles seems to be most suitable to form Ag nanoparticles showing the largest LSPR band and to produce CO with the high selectivity of SCO = 33.5%. Thus, photocatalytic CO2 reduction tests were conducted with the Ag-loaded JRC-TIO-4 samples hereinafter.
The bare JRC-TIO-4 sample without deposition of Ag cocatalyst showed very low CO production rate (0.434 µmol h−1), which confirms that Ag nanoparticles are necessary to produce CO. The results of the samples with various amount of Ag cocatalyst prepared by the methods A and B are as shown in Fig. 4B and C, respectively. At a glance, it is obviously shown that the Ag(x)/TiO2(B,4) photocatalyst prepared by the method B produced predominantly CO and less hydrogen, where the CO selectivity SCO achieved over 80% (Fig. 4C), while the Ag(x)/TiO2(A,4) photocatalyst prepared by the method A gave H2 mainly with CO selectivity less than 50% (Fig. 4B). Especially, the Ag(2)/TiO2(B,4) showed the highest CO production rate 11.5 µmol h−1 with high CO selectivity (SCO = 80%). Further increase of Ag over 3 wt% decreased the photocatalytic activity although they maintained similar CO selectivity over 80%. This is due to agglomeration of Ag nanoparticles deposited on the TiO2 surface without changing the cocatalyst property to produce CO selectively. The photodeposition by the method B would be suitable for the fabrication of such Ag nanoparticles as a cocatalyst for the selective CO production. The photodeposition condition free from molecular oxygen would preferably promote the reduction of Ag cations by photoexcited electrons to form and deposit small Ag metallic nanoparticles on the TiO2 surface. The contribution of small size of Ag nanoparticles for CO2 reduction to CO consists with the literature [33]. In addition, the direct use of the obtained Ag(x)/TiO2(B,4) photocatalyst for the photocatalytic reaction test successively without exposure to the air atmosphere would also contribute to the selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction to produce CO.
3.3 Photocatalytic Reaction Mechanism
Although the reaction mechanism was not investigated in the present study, the outline of the reaction mechanism is mentioned here [50,51,52]. It is known that once light incidents on the TiO2 photocatalyst, electrons in a valence band are excited to a conduction band with the formation of positively charged holes in the valence band as shown in Fig. 5. The photoexcited electrons reduce CO2 to CO (Eq. 1) or reduce proton (H+) to H2 (Eq. 2), while positive holes oxidize H2O to O2 (Eq. 3).
The small Ag cocatalyst deposited by the method B preferably enhances the photocatalytic CO2 reduction to form CO (Eq. 1), while the large Ag cocatalyst prepared by the method A dominantly enhances the reduction of protons to form hydrogen (Eq. 2). Thus, although both photocatalytic CO2 reduction and water splitting take place competitively, the property of the Ag cocatalyst can direct the reaction selectivity. The possible roles of the Ag cocatalyst discussed so far are as follows: Ag species can efficiently receive the photoexcited electrons from the conduction band of TiO2, LSPR of the metallic Ag nanoparticles can enhance the photoabsorption or the surface reaction, or the Ag nanoparticles can function as a catalyst to accelerate the reduction of CO2 and desorption of CO.
4 Conclusions
In the present study, we examined to prepare Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts by two different photodeposition methods and successfully found a photodeposition method to prepare suitable Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts for the photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CO. The obtained Ag/TiO2 photocatalyst had preferably small Ag nanoparticles on the surface and showed high CO production rate (11.5 µmol h−1) and high CO selectivity (80%).
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The author, A.S Hammad, gratefully acknowledges the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education MOHE, which has granted him a full Ph.D. scholarship, and Egypt-Japan University (E-JUST), specially the TMD (Technology Management Department), for providing the facilities to accomplish this work. Additionally, the authors gratefully acknowledge all members of the Yoshida Lab, Kyoto University for the help and support they offered. This study was financially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “singularity-structure project” (No. 17H05334) from JSPS, and the Program for Element Strategy Initiative for Catalysts & Batteries (ESICB), commissioned by the MEXT of Japan.
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Hammad, A., Anzai, A., Zhu, X. et al. Photodeposition Conditions of Silver Cocatalyst on Titanium Oxide Photocatalyst Directing Product Selectivity in Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with Water. Catal Lett 150, 1081–1088 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-019-02997-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-019-02997-z