TY - JOUR
T1 - Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on a high-entropy oxide
AU - Edalati, Parisa
AU - Wang, Qing
AU - Razavi-Khosroshahi, Hadi
AU - Fuji, Masayoshi
AU - Ishihara, Tatsumi
AU - Edalati, Kaveh
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Mr Yuta Koganemaru and Mr Shohei Nakamura of Kyushu University for their assistance on photocatalytic test. This study was supported in part by the WPI-I2CNER, Japan, and in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientic Research on Innovative Research Areas (No. 19H05176) from the MEXT, Japan.
PY - 2020/2/21
Y1 - 2020/2/21
N2 - The introduction of high-entropy oxides (HEOs), i.e. compounds containing oxygen and five or more cations in their crystal structure, has led to interesting functional properties in recent years. In this study, the first high-entropy photocatalyst is synthesized by mechanical alloying via the high-pressure torsion (HPT) method followed by high-temperature oxidation. The synthesized oxide contains 60 mol% of AB2O7 monoclinic perovskite and 40 mol% of A6B2O17 orthorhombic perovskite, where A represents Ti, Zr and Hf and B represents Nb and Ta. This two-phase oxide with an overall composition of TiHfZrNbTaO11 and a d0 electronic configuration shows an appreciable light absorbance in the visible-light region with a bandgap of 2.9 eV and appropriate valence and conduction bands for water splitting. The material successfully produces hydrogen by photocatalytic water splitting, suggesting the potential of HEOs as new low-bandgap photocatalysts.
AB - The introduction of high-entropy oxides (HEOs), i.e. compounds containing oxygen and five or more cations in their crystal structure, has led to interesting functional properties in recent years. In this study, the first high-entropy photocatalyst is synthesized by mechanical alloying via the high-pressure torsion (HPT) method followed by high-temperature oxidation. The synthesized oxide contains 60 mol% of AB2O7 monoclinic perovskite and 40 mol% of A6B2O17 orthorhombic perovskite, where A represents Ti, Zr and Hf and B represents Nb and Ta. This two-phase oxide with an overall composition of TiHfZrNbTaO11 and a d0 electronic configuration shows an appreciable light absorbance in the visible-light region with a bandgap of 2.9 eV and appropriate valence and conduction bands for water splitting. The material successfully produces hydrogen by photocatalytic water splitting, suggesting the potential of HEOs as new low-bandgap photocatalysts.
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U2 - 10.1039/c9ta12846h
DO - 10.1039/c9ta12846h
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081107824
SN - 2050-7488
VL - 8
SP - 3814
EP - 3821
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
IS - 7
ER -
