Hybrid Au/zno hexagonal pyramid nanostructures: Preferred growth on the apexes of the basal plane than on the tip

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4199-4207

  Yue, Mingli ^a   Yang, Ming ^a   Zhang, Dan ^a   Xiang, Di ^a   Hou, Ying ^a   Han, Jiecai ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; HYBRID MATERIALS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTODEGRADATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; UV AND VISIBLE LIGHT; ZNO HEXAGONAL PYRAMIDS;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84923974922     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp512570b     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Yin, Y.; Alivisatos, A. P. Colloidal Nanocrystal Synthesis and the Organic-Inorganic Interface Nature 2005, 437, 664-670
2. Shevchenko, E. V.; Talapin, D. V.; Kotov, N. A.; O'Brien, S.; Murray, C. B. Structural Diversity in Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices Nature 2006, 439, 55-59
3. Park, J.; Joo, J.; Kwon, S. G.; Jang, Y.; Hyeon, T. Synthesis of Monodisperse Spherical Nanocrystals Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 4630-4660
4. Narayanan, R.; El-Sayed, M. A. Shape-Dependent Catalytic Activity of Platinum Nanoparticles in Colloidal Solution Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 1343-1348
5. Daniel, M. C.; Astruc, D. Gold Nanoparticles: Assembly, Supramolecular Chemistry, Quantum-Size-Related Properties, and Applications toward Biology, Catalysis, and Nanotechnology Chem. Rev. 2004, 104, 293-346
6. Linic, S.; Christopher, P.; Xin, H. L.; Marimuthu, A. Catalytic and Photocatalytic Transformations on Metal Nanoparticles with Targeted Geometric and Plasmonic Properties Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, 1890-1899
7. 2 (101) Nanobelts J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 6679-6685
8. Jang, E. S.; Won, J. H.; Hwang, S. J.; Choy, J. H. Fine Tuning of the Face Orientation of ZnO Crystals to Optimize Their Photocatalytic Activity Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 3309-3312
9. Grela, M. A.; Colussi, A. J. Kinetics of Stochastic Charge Transfer and Recombination Events in Semiconductor Colloids. Relevance to Photocatalysis Efficiency J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 18214-18221
10. Pacholski, C.; Kornowski, A.; Weller, H. Self-Assembly of ZnO: From Nanodots, to Nanorods Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 1188-1191
11. Murphy, C. J.; San, T. K.; Gole, A. M.; Orendorff, C. J.; Gao, J. X.; Gou, L.; Hunyadi, S. E.; Li, T. Anisotropic Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Assembly, and Optical Applications J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 13857-13870
12. Manna, L.; Milliron, D. J.; Meisel, A.; Scher, E. C.; Alivisatos, A. P. Controlled Growth of Tetrapod-Branched Inorganic Nanocrystals Nat. Mater. 2003, 2, 382-385
13. Miszta, K. Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Suspended Branched Colloidal Nanocrystals into Superlattice Structures Nat. Mater. 2011, 10, 872-876
14. Sun, Y. G.; Xia, Y. N. Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Science 2002, 298, 2176-2179
15. Shinde, V. R.; Gujar, T. P.; Noda, T.; Fujita, D.; Vinu, A.; Grandcolas, M.; Ye, J. H. Growth of Shape- and Size-Selective Zinc Oxide Nanorods by a Microwave-Assisted Chemical Bath Deposition Method: Effect on Photocatalysis Properties Chem.-Eur. J. 2010, 16, 10569-10575
16. Choi, S. H.; Kim, E. G.; Park, J.; An, K.; Lee, N.; Kim, S. C.; Hyeon, T. Large-Scale Synthesis of Hexagonal Pyramid-Shaped ZnO Nanocrystals from Thermolysis of Zn-Oleate Complex J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 14792-14794
17. Yang, M.; Sun, K.; Kotov, N. A. Formation and Assembly-Disassembly Processes of ZnO Hexagonal Pyramids Driven by Dipolar and Excluded Volume Interactions J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 1860-1872
18. Zhou, X.; Xie, Z. X.; Jiang, Z. Y.; Kuang, Q.; Zhang, S. H.; Xu, T.; Huang, R. B.; Zheng, L. S. Formation of ZnO Hexagonal Micro-Pyramids: A Successful Control of the Exposed Polar Surfaces with the Assistance of an Ionic Liquid Chem. Commun. 2005, 5572-5574
19. Li, Y. F.; Liu, Z. P. Particle Size, Shape and Activity for Photocatalysis on Titania Anatase Nanoparticles in Aqueous Surroundings J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 15743-15752
20. Wang, C.; Daimon, H.; Onodera, T.; Koda, T.; Sun, S. H. A General Approach to the Size- and Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles and Their Catalytic Reduction of Oxygen Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3588-3591
21. Banin, U.; Ben-Shahar, Y.; Vinokurov, K. Hybrid Semiconductor-Metal Nanoparticles: From Architecture to Function Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 97-110
22. Costi, R.; Saunders, A. E.; Banin, U. Colloidal Hybrid Nanostructures: A New Type of Functional Materials Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4878-4897
23. Alivisatos, A. P. Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots Science 1996, 271, 933-937
24. Xia, Y. N.; Halas, N. J. Shape-Controlled Synthesis and Surface Plasmonic Properties of Metallic Nanostructures MRS Bull. 2005, 30, 338-344
25. Jin, R. C. Quantum Sized, Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanoclusters Nanoscale 2010, 2, 343-362
26. Lee, J.; Govorov, A. O.; Dulka, J.; Kotov, N. A. Bioconjugates of CdTe Nanowires and Au Nanoparticles: Plasmon-Exciton Interactions, Luminescence Enhancement, and Collective Effects Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 2323-2330
27. Nie, Z. H.; Petukhova, A.; Kumacheva, E. Properties and Emerging Applications of Self-Assembled Structures Made from Inorganic Nanoparticles Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010, 5, 15-25
28. Rawalekar, S.; Mokari, T. Rational Design of Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Photocatalysis Adv. Energy Mater. 2013, 3, 12-27
29. Asahi, R.; Morikawa, T.; Ohwaki, T.; Aoki, K.; Taga, Y. Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxides Science 2001, 293, 269-271
30. Wood, A.; Giersig, M.; Mulvaney, P. Fermi Level Equilibration in Quantum Dot-Metal Nanojunctions J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 8810-8815
31. Kamat, P. V. Meeting the Clean Energy Demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 2834-2860
32. 2/Gold Nanocomposites. Effect of Metal Particle Size on the Fermi Level Equilibration J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 4943-4950
33. 2 Hollow Nanospheres for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalysis Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 6618-6623
34. 2 Nanocomposite Prepared Using Bifunctional Bridging Linker Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 907-915
35. 2 Superstructure-Based Plasmonic Photocatalysts Exhibiting Efficient Charge Separation and Unprecedented Activity J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 458-465
36. Saunders, A. E.; Popov, I.; Banin, U. Synthesis of Hybrid CdS-Au Colloidal Nanostructures J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 25421-25429
37. Menagen, G.; Macdonald, J. E.; Shemesh, Y.; Popov, I.; Banin, U. Au Growth on Semiconductor Nanorods: Photoinduced Versus Thermal Growth Mechanisms J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17406-17411
38. Chen, W. T.; Yang, T. T.; Hsu, Y. J. Au-CdS Core-Shell Nanocrystals with Controllable Shell Thickness and Photoinduced Charge Separation Property Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 7204-7206
39. Han, S. C.; Hu, L. F.; Gao, N.; Al-Ghamdi, A. A.; Fang, X. S. Efficient Self-Assembly Synthesis of Uniform CdS Spherical Nanoparticles-Au Nanoparticles Hybrids with Enhanced Photoactivity Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 3725-3733
40. Pacholski, C.; Kornowski, A.; Weller, H. Site-Specific Photodeposition of Silver on ZnO Nanorods Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 4774-4777
41. Wang, X.; Kong, X. G.; Yu, Y.; Zhang, H. Synthesis and Characterization of Water-Soluble and Bifunctional ZnO-Au Nanocomposites J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 3836-3841
42. Li, P.; Wei, Z.; Wu, T.; Peng, Q.; Li, Y. D. Au-ZnO Hybrid Nanopyramids and Their Photocatalytic Properties J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 5660-5663
43. Zeng, H. B.; Cai, W. P.; Liu, P. S.; Xu, X. X.; Zhou, H. J.; Klingshirn, C.; Kalt, H. ZnO-Based Hollow Nanoparticles by Selective Etching: Elimination and Reconstruction of Metal-Semiconductor Interface, Improvement of Blue Emission and Photocatalysis ACS Nano 2008, 2, 1661-1670
44. Ha, J. W.; Ruberu, T. P. A.; Han, R.; Dong, B.; Vela, J.; Fang, N. Super-Resolution Mapping of Photogenerated Electron and Hole Separation in Single Metal-Semiconductor Nanocatalysts J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 1398-1408
45. Liu, Z. W.; Hou, W. B.; Pavaskar, P.; Aykol, M.; Cronin, S. B. Plasmon Resonant Enhancement of Photocatalytic Water Splitting under Visible Illumination Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 1111-1116
46. Awazu, K.; Fujimaki, M.; Rockstuhl, C.; Tominaga, J.; Murakami, H.; Ohki, Y.; Yoshida, N.; Watanabe, T. A Plasmonic Photocatalyst Consisting of Sliver Nanoparticles Embedded in Titanium Dioxide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1676-1680
47. Christopher, P.; Ingram, D. B.; Linic, S. Enhancing Photochemical Activity of Semiconductor Nanoparticles with Optically Active Ag Nanostructures: Photochemistry Mediated by Ag Surface Plasmons J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 9173-9177
48. 2 Surface Sensitized with Plasmonic Nanoparticles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 4343-4354
49. Linic, S.; Christopher, P.; Ingram, D. B. Plasmonic-Metal Nanostructures for Efficient Conversion of Solar to Chemical Energy Nat. Mater. 2011, 10, 911-921
50. Atwater, H. A.; Polman, A. Plasmonics for Improved Photovoltaic Devices Nat. Mater. 2010, 9, 205-213
51. Cozzoli, P. D.; Pellegrino, T.; Manna, L. Synthesis, Properties and Perspectives of Hybrid Nanocrystal Structures Chem. Soc. Rev. 2006, 35, 1195-1208
52. Wang, Z. L. Zinc Oxide Nanostructures: Growth, Properties and Applications J. Phys.: Condens. Mater. 2004, 16, R829-R858
53. Huang, M. H.; Mao, S.; Feick, H.; Yan, H. Q.; Wu, Y. Y.; Kind, H.; Weber, E.; Russo, R.; Yang, P. D. Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers Science 2001, 292, 1897-1899
54. Qin, Y.; Wang, X. D.; Wang, Z. L. Microfibre-Nanowire Hybrid Structure for Energy Scavenging Nature 2008, 451, 809-813
55. Xiong, H. M. ZnO Nanoparticles Applied to Bioimaging and Drug Delivery Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 5329-5335
56. 2 Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. C 2003, 77, 65-82
57. Miyauchi, M.; Nakajima, A.; Watanabe, T.; Hashimoto, K. Photocatalysis and Photoinduced Hydrophilicity of Various Metal Oxide Thin Films Chem. Mater. 2002, 14, 2812-2816
58. Chakrabarti, S.; Dutta, B. K. Photocatalytic Degradation of Model Textile Dyes in Wastewater Using ZnO as Semiconductor Catalyst J. Hazard. Mater. 2004, 112, 269-278
59. 2: Challenges and Opportunities Energy Environ. Sci. 2009, 2, 1231-1257
60. Yang, J. L.; An, S. J.; Park, W. I.; Yi, G. C.; Choi, W. Photocatalysis Using ZnO Thin Films and Nanoneedles Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, 1661-1664
61. 2 and ZnO Visible Light Active J. Hazard. Mater. 2009, 170, 560-569
62. Jing, L. Q.; Zhou, W.; Tian, G. H.; Fu, H. G. Surface Tuning for Oxide-Based Nanomaterials as Efficient Photocatalysts Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 9509-9549
63. Vayssieres, L.; Keis, K.; Hagfeldt, A.; Lindquist, S. E. Three-Dimensional Array of Highly Oriented Crystalline ZnO Microtubes Chem. Mater. 2001, 13, 4395-4398
64. Meulenkamp, E. A. Synthesis and Growth of ZnO Nanoparticles J. Phys. Chem. B 1998, 102, 5566-5572
65. Flomin, K.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Moshofsky, B.; Diab, M.; Mokari, T. Selective Growth of Metal Particles on ZnO Nanopyramids Via a One-Pot Synthesis Nanoscale 2014, 6, 1335-1339
66. Yao, K. X.; Liu, X.; Zhao, L.; Zeng, H. C.; Han, Y. Site-Specific Growth of Au Particles on ZnO Nanopyramids under Ultraviolet Illumination Nanoscale 2011, 3, 4195-4200
67. Ji, X. H.; Song, X. N.; Li, J.; Bai, Y. B.; Yang, W. S.; Peng, X. G. Size Control of Gold Nanocrystals in Citrate Reduction: The Third Role of Citrate J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 13939-13948
68. McGilvray, K. L.; Granger, J.; Correia, M.; Banks, J. T.; Scaiano, J. C. Opportunistic Use of Tetrachloroaurate Photolysis in the Generation of Reductive Species for the Production of Gold Nanostructures Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011, 13, 11914-11918
69. Kawska, A.; Duchstein, P.; Hochrein, O.; Zahn, D. Atomistic Mechanisms of ZnO Aggregation from Ethanolic Solution: Ion Association, Proton Transfer, and Self-Organization Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 2336-2340
70. He, W. W.; Kim, H. K.; Warner, W. G.; Melka, D.; Callahan, J. H.; Yin, J. J. Photogenerated Charge Carriers and Reactive Oxygen Species in ZnO/Au Hybrid Nanostructures with Enhanced Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Activity J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 750-757
71. 2 Nanoparticles J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 8436-8442
72. Park, W. I.; Jun, Y. H.; Jung, S. W.; Yi, G. C. Excitonic Emissions Observed in ZnO Single Crystal Nanorods Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003, 82, 964-966
73. Borys, N. J.; Walter, M. J.; Huang, J.; Talapin, D. V.; Lupton, J. M. The Role of Particle Morphology in Interfacial Energy Transfer in CdSe/CdS Heterostructure Nanocrystals Science 2010, 330, 1371-1374