Reaction of O2 with Subsurface Oxygen Vacancies on TiO2 Anatase (101)
Reaction of O2 with Subsurface Oxygen Vacancies on TiO2 Anatase (101)
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DOI:
10.1126/science.1239879
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发表时间:
2013-08-30
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56.9
通讯作者:
Diebold, Ulrike
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作者:
Setvin, Martin;Aschauer, Ulrich;Diebold, Ulrike
Oxygen (O-2) adsorbed on metal oxides is important in catalytic oxidation reactions, chemical sensing, and photocatalysis. Strong adsorption requires transfer of negative charge from oxygen vacancies (V(O)s) or dopants, for example. With scanning tunneling microscopy, we observed, transformed, and, in conjunction with theory, identified the nature of O-2 molecules on the (101) surface of anatase (titanium oxide, TiO2) doped with niobium. V(O)s reside exclusively in the bulk, but we pull them to the surface with a strongly negatively charged scanning tunneling microscope tip. O-2 adsorbed as superoxo (O-2(-)) at fivefold-coordinated Ti sites was transformed to peroxo (O-2(2-)) and, via reaction with a V-O, placed into an anion surface lattice site as an (O-2)(O) species. This so-called bridging dimer also formed when O-2 directly reacted with V(O)s at or below the surface.