Structural Evolution of Chemically-Driven RuO2 Nanowires and 3-Dimensional Design for Photo-Catalytic Applications

Joonmo Park; Jae Won Lee; Byeong Uk Ye; Sung He Chun; Sang Hoon Joo; Hyunwoong Park; Heon Lee; Hu Young Jeong; Myung Hwa Kim; Jeong Min Baik

doi:10.1038/srep11933

Structural Evolution of Chemically-Driven RuO₂ Nanowires and 3-Dimensional Design for Photo-Catalytic Applications

Joonmo Park, Jae Won Lee, Byeong Uk Ye, Sung He Chun, Sang Hoon Joo, Hyunwoong Park, Heon Lee, Hu Young Jeong, Myung Hwa Kim, Jeong Min Baik

Chemistry & Nanoscience

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Abstract

Growth mechanism of chemically-driven RuO₂ nanowires is explored and used to fabricate three-dimensional RuO₂ branched Au-TiO₂ nanowire electrodes for the photostable solar water oxidation. For the real time structural evolution during the nanowire growth, the amorphous RuO₂ precursors (Ru(OH)₃·H₂O) are heated at 180 °C, producing the RuO₂ nanoparticles with the tetragonal crystallographic structure and Ru enriched amorphous phases, observed through the in-situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction and the high-resolution transmission electron microscope images. Growth then proceeds by Ru diffusion to the nanoparticles, followed by the diffusion to the growing surface of the nanowire in oxygen ambient, supported by the nucleation theory. The RuO₂ branched Au-TiO₂ nanowire arrays shows a remarkable enhancement in the photocurrent density by approximately 60% and 200%, in the UV-visible and Visible region, respectively, compared with pristine TiO₂ nanowires. Furthermore, there is no significant decrease in the device's photoconductance with UV-visible illumination during 1 day, making it possible to produce oxygen gas without the loss of the photoactvity.

Original language	English
Article number	11933
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11933
State	Published - 7 Jul 2015

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This work was supported the Pioneer Research Center Program (2013M3C1A3063602) of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP), and by Basic Science Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by MEST (Nos. 2014R1A1A2059791 for MHK). This work was also financially supported by the KIST-UNIST partnership program (2V03870/2V03880) and equivalently by the 2014 Research Fund (1.140019.01) of UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). We are very thankful to Prof. Suk-Bin Lee (UNIST) for great contribution in this paper.

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