Recently it has been shown that ETS-10, a crystalline microporous titanosilicate, is an inverse-shape-selective photocatalyst. The main drawback in the extensive use of this material was its band-gap value, located in the UV, that don’t allow the use of solar light. In this work we succeed to shift the ETS-10 light absorption down to the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum by introducing Ag+ cations inside the ETS-10 channels. Thermal-, chemical- and UV-photo-treatments have been applied to Ag-ETS-10 to tune, in a controlled and progressive way, the aggregation of isolated Ag+ counterions into metal nanoclusters of increasing nuclearity. This is a direct mean to tune the frequency of silver nanoparticle plasmon resonance and thus the light absorption properties of the material. It is further reported that transformation of isolated Ag+ ions into aggregated Ag0 nano-clusters, is almost reversible. Cycles of H2-chemical reduction/O2-chemical oxidation and of UV-photo-reduction/Vis-photo-oxidation are reported. UV-Vis, Ag K-edge EXAFS and FTIR spectroscopy of adsorbed CO are the main techniques used to monitor the evolution of the silver aggregation along the different reduction/oxidation treatments.

From isolated Ag+ ions to aggregated Ag0 nano-clusters in silver-exchanged ETS-10 molecular sieve: a reversible behavior

AGOSTINI, Giovanni;USSEGLIO NANOT, SANDRO;GROPPO, Elena Clara;PRESTIPINO, Carmelo;BORDIGA, Silvia;ZECCHINA, Adriano;LAMBERTI, Carlo
2009-01-01

Abstract

Recently it has been shown that ETS-10, a crystalline microporous titanosilicate, is an inverse-shape-selective photocatalyst. The main drawback in the extensive use of this material was its band-gap value, located in the UV, that don’t allow the use of solar light. In this work we succeed to shift the ETS-10 light absorption down to the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum by introducing Ag+ cations inside the ETS-10 channels. Thermal-, chemical- and UV-photo-treatments have been applied to Ag-ETS-10 to tune, in a controlled and progressive way, the aggregation of isolated Ag+ counterions into metal nanoclusters of increasing nuclearity. This is a direct mean to tune the frequency of silver nanoparticle plasmon resonance and thus the light absorption properties of the material. It is further reported that transformation of isolated Ag+ ions into aggregated Ag0 nano-clusters, is almost reversible. Cycles of H2-chemical reduction/O2-chemical oxidation and of UV-photo-reduction/Vis-photo-oxidation are reported. UV-Vis, Ag K-edge EXAFS and FTIR spectroscopy of adsorbed CO are the main techniques used to monitor the evolution of the silver aggregation along the different reduction/oxidation treatments.
2009
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http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm803216k
ETS-10; titanosilicte; photocatalyst; visible light; Ag clusters; metal cluster size tuning; UV-Vis; EXAFS; FTIR; photodegradation
G. Agostini; S. Usseglio; E. Groppo; M. J. Uddin; C. Prestipino; S. Bordiga; A. Zecchina; P. L. Solari; C. Lamberti
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