Pulsed-UV illumination on graphene oxide: A new strategy in photocatalytic synthesis of electrocatalysts to control the structural and electrochemical properties
Navid Haghmoradi
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorEmre Utku Öztürk
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Search for more papers by this authorSiddhartha Peri
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Laboratory for Functional Polymers, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Sabanci University SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
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Selmiye Alkan Gürsel
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sabanci University SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
Correspondence
Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorNavid Haghmoradi
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Search for more papers by this authorZahide Tuğba Sarı
Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorEmre Utku Öztürk
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Search for more papers by this authorSiddhartha Peri
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Search for more papers by this authorSina Abdolhosseinzadeh
Laboratory for Functional Polymers, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Search for more papers by this authorBegüm Yarar Kaplan
Sabanci University SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
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Selmiye Alkan Gürsel
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sabanci University SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
Correspondence
Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.
Email: [email protected]
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Summary
This study demonstrated the capability of a novel method in controlling the structural and electrochemical properties of electrocatalysts, utilizing a pulsed-ultraviolet (UV) setup for the synthesis procedure. A hand-made reactor provided a new set of parameters. The variation of UVon and UVoff periods resulted in samples with a range of different structures, compositions, and activities. Graphene/Pt was prepared with varying forms of illumination pulse, and its hydrogen oxidation and oxygen reduction reaction performances were evaluated. Controlling the reduction degree of Pt ions on partially reduced graphene oxide was achieved by manipulating the setup design. The results revealed a dominant growth and agglomeration phase of Pt particles, mostly with metallic states, by increasing both UVon and Uoff time spontaneously. Long UVon without adequate UVoff did not result in promising electrocatalytic activities. In other words, different structures, compositions, and activities of samples suggested that not just the illumination is the crucial factor, it is also the resting time or UVoff which determines the surface adsorption kinetics, nucleation sites, and growth mechanism of nanoparticles. Further chemical reduction by highly concentrated ascorbic acid was used to confirm the proposed mechanisms, which lead to samples even with more metallic Pt (Pt0).
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