Photocatalytic Activity and Fluorescence of Gold/Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Formed by Dithiol Linking

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 8718-8725

  Unlu, Ilyas ^a   Soares, Jason W ^b   Steeves, Diane M ^b   Whitten, James E ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b US Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; GOLD; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OZONE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE DEFECTS; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; MONOLAYER-PROTECTED GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANO-COMPOSITE POWDERS; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM;

OZONE LAYER;

EID: 84938709494     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01632     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Eranna, G. Nanostructured Metal Oxides and Gas-Sensing Devices. In Metal Oxide Nanostructures as Gas Sensing Devices; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2012; pp 41-190.
2. Trung, D. D.; Nguyen, D. H.; Tong, P. V.; Nguyen, V. D.; Dao, T. D.; Chung, H. V.; Nagao, T.; Nguyen, V. H. Effective Decoration of Pd Nanoparticles on the Surface of SnO2 Nanowires for Enhancement of CO Gas-Sensing Performance J. Hazard. Mater. 2014, 265, 124-132 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.11.054
3. Kukkola, J.; Mohl, M.; Leino, A.-R.; Toth, G.; Wu, M.-C.; Shchukarev, A.; Popov, A.; Mikkola, J.-P.; Lauri, J.; Riihimaeki, M. Inkjet-Printed Gas Sensors: Metal Decorated WO3 Nanoparticles and their Gas Sensing Properties J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 17878-17886 10.1039/c2jm32499g
4. Zhang, Y.; Xiang, Q.; Xu, J. High Performance Chemical Sensors Constructed by Noble Metal Nanoparticle Decorated ZnO Nanowires Sens. Lett. 2011, 9, 332-337 10.1166/sl.2011.1475
5. Li, X.; Feng, W.; Xiao, Y.; Sun, P.; Hu, X.; Shimanoe, K.; Lu, G.; Yamazoe, N. Hollow Zinc Oxide Microspheres Functionalized by Au Nanoparticles for Gas Sensors RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 28005-28010 10.1039/c4ra02541e
6. Chang, C. M.; Hon, M. H.; Leu, I. C. Influence of Size and Density of Au Nanoparticles on ZnO Nanorod Arrays for Sensing Reducing Gases J. Electrochem. Soc. 2013, 160, B170-B176 10.1149/2.076309jes
7. Rai, P.; Kim, Y.-S.; Song, H.-M.; Song, M.-K.; Yu, Y.-T. The Role of Gold Catalyst on the Sensing Behavior of ZnO Nanorods for CO and NO2 Gases Sens. Actuators, B 2012, 165, 133-142 10.1016/j.snb.2012.02.030
8. Liu, X.; Zhang, J.; Wang, L.; Yang, T.; Guo, X.; Shihua, W.; Wang, S. 3D Hierarchically Porous ZnO Structures and their Functionalization by Au Nanoparticles for Gas Sensors J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 349-356 10.1039/C0JM01800G
9. Liu, X.; Zhang, J.; Guo, X.; Wu, S.; Wang, S. Amino Acid-Assisted One-Pot Assembly of Au, Pt Nanoparticles onto One-Dimensional ZnO Microrods Nanoscale 2010, 2, 1178-1184 10.1039/c0nr00015a
10. Wongrat, E.; Pimpang, P.; Choopun, S. Comparative Study of Ethanol Sensor Based on Gold Nanoparticles: ZnO Nanostructure and Gold-ZnO Nanostructure Appl. Surf. Sci. 2009, 256, 968-971 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.02.046
11. Joshi, R. K.; Hu, Q.; Alvi, F.; Joshi, N.; Kumar, A. Au Decorated Zinc Oxide Nanowires for CO Sensing J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 16199-16202 10.1021/jp906458b
12. Gyorgy, E.; Giannoudakos, A.; Kompitsas, M.; Mihailescu, I. N. Laser Grown Gold Nanoparticles on Zinc Oxide Thin Films for Gas Sensor Applications J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 2008, 10, 536-540
13. Socol, G.; Axente, E.; Ristoscu, C.; Sima, F.; Popescu, A.; Stefan, N.; Mihailescu, I. N.; Escoubas, L.; Ferreira, J.; Bakalova, S. Enhanced Gas Sensing of Au Nanocluster-Doped or Coated Zinc Oxide Thin Films J. Appl. Phys. 2007, 102, 083103/1-083103/6 10.1063/1.2798922
14. Snow, A. W.; Ancona, M. G.; Kruppa, W.; Jernigan, G. G.; Foos, E. E.; Park, D. Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoclusters on Micro- and Nanoelectronic Substrates J. Mater. Chem. 2002, 12, 1222-1230 10.1039/b108859a
15. Callini, E.; Pasquini, L.; Piscopiello, E.; Montone, A.; Antisari, M.; Vittori, B. E. Hydrogen Sorption in Pd-Decorated Mg-MgO Core-Shell Nanoparticles Appl. Phys. Lett. 2009, 94, 221905/1-221905/3 10.1063/1.3147205
16. Li, G. P.; Chen, R.; Guo, D. L.; Wong, L. M.; Wang, S. J.; Sun, H. D.; Wu, T. Nanoscale Semiconductor-Insulator-Metal Core/Shell Heterostructures: Facile Synthesis and Light Emission Nanoscale 2011, 3, 3170-3177 10.1039/c1nr10352k
17. Zahran, E. M.; Bedford, N. M.; Nguyen, M. A.; Chang, Y.-J.; Guiton, B. S.; Naik, R. R.; Bachas, L. G.; Knecht, M. R. Light-Activated Tandem Catalysis Driven by Multicomponent Nanomaterials J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 32-35 10.1021/ja410465s
18. Rosario, A. V.; Pereira, E. C. The Role of Pt Addition on the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanoparticles: The Limit Between Doping and Metallization Appl. Catal., B 2014, 144, 840-845 10.1016/j.apcatb.2013.07.029
19. Tompos, A.; Margitfalvi, J. L.; Szabo, E. G.; Paszti, Z.; Sajo, I.; Radnoczi, G. Role of Modifiers in Multi-Component MgO-Supported Au Catalysts Designed for Preferential CO Oxidation J. Catal. 2009, 266, 207-217 10.1016/j.jcat.2009.06.007
20. Zhao, H.; Lu, B.; Xu, J.; Xie, E.; Wang, T.; Xu, Z. Electrospinning-Thermal Treatment Synthesis: A General Strategy to Decorate Highly Porous Nanotubes on Both Internal and External Sidewalls with Metal Oxide/Noble Metal Nanoparticles Nanoscale 2013, 5, 2835-2839 10.1039/c3nr34300f
21. Purahmed, M.; Stroscio, M. A.; Dutta, M. Strong Enhancement of Near-Band-Edge Photoluminescence of ZnO Nanowires Decorated with Sputtered Metallic Nanoparticles J. Electron. Mater. 2014, 43, 740-745 10.1007/s11664-013-2924-1
22. Nahar, M.; Gallardo, I. F.; Gleason, K. L.; Becker, M. F.; Keto, J. W.; Kovar, D. Metal-on-Oxide Nanoparticles Produced using Laser Ablation of Microparticle Aerosols J. Nanopart. Res. 2011, 13, 3455-3464 10.1007/s11051-011-0267-5
23. Feng, Y.; Cho, I. S.; Rao, P. M.; Cai, L.; Zheng, X. Sol-Flame Synthesis: A General Strategy to Decorate Nanowires with Metal Oxide/Noble Metal Nanoparticles Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 855-860 10.1021/nl300060b
24. Im, J.; Singh, J.; Soares, J. W.; Steeves, D. M.; Whitten, J. E. Synthesis and Optical Properties of Dithiol-Linked ZnO/Gold Nanoparticle Composites J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 10518-10523 10.1021/jp202461f
25. Singh, J.; Im, J.; Whitten, J. E.; Soares, J. W.; Steeves, D. M. Encapsulation of Zinc Oxide Nanorods and Nanoparticles Langmuir 2009, 25, 9947-9953 10.1021/la9010983
26. Singh, J.; Im, J.; Watters, E. J.; Whitten, J. E.; Soares, J. W.; Steeves, D. M. Thiol Dosing of ZnO Single Crystals and Nanorods: Surface Chemistry and Photoluminescence Surf. Sci. 2013, 609, 183-189 10.1016/j.susc.2012.12.006
27. Rani, G.; Sahare, P. D. Study of the Structural and Morphological Changes During the Phase Transition of ZnS to ZnO Appl. Phys. A: Mater. Sci. Process. 2014, 116, 831-837 10.1007/s00339-013-8173-6
28. Socrates, G. Infrared and Raman Characteristic Group Frequencies: Tables and Charts, 3 rd ed.; John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2001.
29. Puckett, S. D.; Heuser, J. A.; Keith, J. D.; Spendel, W. U.; Pacey, G. E. Interaction of Ozone with Gold Nanoparticles Talanta 2005, 66, 1242-1246 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.01.038
30. Thonke, K.; Feneberg, M. Photoluminescence of ZnO: Basics and Applications. In Handbook of Luminescent Semiconductor Materials; Bergman, L.; McHale, J. L., Eds.; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2012; pp 87-124.
31. Zhang, D.; Ushita, H.; Wang, P.; Park, C.; Murakami, R.; Yang, S.; Song, X. Photoluminescence Modulation of ZnO via Coupling with the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles Appl. Phys. Lett. 2013, 103, 093114/1-093114/5 10.1063/1.4819476
32. Hou, X.; Wang, L. Controllable Fabrication and Photocatalysis of ZnO/Au Nanohybrids via Regenerative Ion Exchange and Reduction Cycles RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 56945-56951 10.1039/C4RA10785C
33. Alexson, D. A.; Badescu, S. C.; Glembocki, O. J.; Prokes, S. M.; Rendell, R. W. Metal Adsorbate Hybridized Electronic States and their Impact on Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Chem. Phys. Lett. 2009, 477, 144-149 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.06.053
34. Khanchandani, S.; Kundu, S.; Patra, A.; Ganguli, A. K. Band Gap Tuning of ZnO/In2S3 Core/Shell Nanorod Arrays for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalysis J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 5558-5567 10.1021/jp310495j
35. Liu, X.; Li, Z.; Zhao, W.; Zhao, C.; Yang, J.; Wang, Y. Zinc Oxide Nanorod/Au Composite Arrays and their Enhanced Photocatalytic Properties J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2014, 432, 170-175 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.06.008
36. Saoud, K.; Alsoubaihi, R.; Bensaleh, N.; Bora, T.; Bertino, M.; Dutta, J. Synthesis of Supported Silver Nanospheres on Zinc Oxide Nanorods for Visible Light Photocatalytic Applications Mater. Res. Bull. 2015, 63, 134-140 10.1016/j.materresbull.2014.12.001
37. Hou, X. ZnO/Ag Heterostructured Nanoassemblies: Wet-Chemical Preparation and Improved Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performance Mater. Lett. 2015, 139, 201-204 10.1016/j.matlet.2014.10.053
38. Polat, I.; Yilmaz, S.; Altin, I.; Bacaksiz, E.; Sökmen, M. The Influence of Cu-Doping on Structural, Optical, and Photocatalytic Properties of ZnO Nanorods Mater. Chem. Phys. 2014, 148, 528-532 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2014.07.011
39. Colón-Ibanez, G.; Belver-Coldeira, C.; Fernandez-Garcia, M. Nanostructured Oxides in Photocatalysis. In Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Oxide Nanomaterials; Rodriguez, J. A.; Fernandez-Garcia, M., Eds.; John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, 2007; pp 491-562.
40. Kim, K.-J.; Kreider, P. B.; Chang, C.-H.; Park, C.-M.; Ahn, H.-G. Visible-Light-Sensitive Nanoscale Au-ZnO Photocatalysts J. Nanopart. Res. 2013, 15, 1-11 10.1007/s11051-013-1606-5
41. Wang, Q.; Geng, B.; Wang, S. ZnO/Au Hybrid Nanoarchitectures: Wet-Chemical Synthesis and Structurally Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 8968-8973 10.1021/es902568h
42. Subramanian, V.; Wolf, E. E.; Kamat, P. V. Green Emission to Probe Photoinduced Charging Events in ZnO-Au Nanoparticles. Charge distribution and Fermi-Level Equilibration J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 7479-7485 10.1021/jp0275037