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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Surface-coordination-induced selective synthesis of cubic and orthorhombic NaNbO3 and their photocatalytic properties†

Peng Li,abc   Shuxin Ouyang,b   Yuanjian Zhang,c   Tetsuya Kakoab  and  Jinhua Ye*abcd  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

b Catalytic Materials Group, Environmental Remediation Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
E-mail: Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp

c International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

d TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, P. R. China

Abstract

NaNbO3 photocatalysts with cubic and orthorhombic structures were selectively fabricated at a low temperature using different starting reagents through a surface coordination modulation. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, field emission-transmission electron microscopy, ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. A surface ligand coordination effect is proposed to understand the crystal growth mechanism of cubic NaNbO3. Induced by the organic ligands, cubic NaNbO3 could be prepared at a temperature as low as 500 °C. Interestingly, the as-synthesized cubic NaNbO3 shows better photocatalytic performances than those prepared at temperatures over 600 °C by the conventional way, both in H2 evolution from methanol aqueous solution and CO2 photoreduction in the gas phase. The enhanced photocatalytic activities could be attributed to the preferred crystal structure induced by the surface ligand coordination and the larger surface area obtained from the low formation temperature.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2TA00260D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Sep 2012
Accepted
30 Oct 2012
First published
30 Oct 2012

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 1185-1191

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Surface-coordination-induced selective synthesis of cubic and orthorhombic NaNbO3 and their photocatalytic properties

P. Li, S. Ouyang, Y. Zhang, T. Kako and J. Ye, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 1185 DOI: 10.1039/C2TA00260D

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