An investigation of the optical properties and water splitting potential of the coloured metallic perovskites Sr1-xBaxMoO3

H. A. Hopper; J. Le; J. Cheng; T. Weller; R. Marschall; J. Z. Bloh; D. E. Macphee; A. Folli; A. C. McLaughlin

doi:10.1016/j.jssc.2015.12.002

An investigation of the optical properties and water splitting potential of the coloured metallic perovskites Sr1-xBaxMoO3

H. A. Hopper, J. Le, J. Cheng, T. Weller, R. Marschall, J. Z. Bloh, D. E. Macphee, A. Folli, A. C. McLaughlin

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Abstract

The solid solution Sr1-xBaxMoO3 (x=0.00, 0.025, 0.050, 0.075, 0.100 and 1.00) has been synthesised. Rietveld refinement of X-ray diffraction data shows that all materials crystallise with cubic (Pm-3m) symmetry and that a miscibility gap exists from x=0.1-1.0. The optical properties of the metallic perovskites Sr1-xBaxMoO3 have been investigated by a combination of UV-vis spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT). Upon increasing x from 0 to 1 in Sr(1-)xBa(x)MoO(3) there is a reduction in the measured band gap from 2.20 eV to 2.07 eV. The measured band gap is attributed to the electronic transition from the Mo 4d t(2g) band to the e(g) band. The potential of SrMoO3 and BaMoO3 as water-splitting photocatalysts was explored but there was no evidence of hydrogen or oxygen evolution, even with the presence of a Pt co-catalyst. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	87-92
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Volume	234
Early online date	4 Dec 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2015.12.002
Publication status	Published - Feb 2016

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Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the University of Aberdeen for provision of a studentship for Harriet Hopper. J. Le is supported by a CoPS studentship at the University of Aberdeen. J. Le and J. C. thank the Maxwell supercomputing cluster at the University of Aberdeen for computing time.

Keywords

Perovskite
photocatalysis
optical properties
space gaussian pseudopotentials
photocatalytic performance
TiO2 photocatalysis
electron-transfer
crystal-structure
energy-levels
aqueous TIO2
thin-films
X-Ray
diffraction

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An investigation of the optical properties and water splitting potential of the coloured metallic perovskites Sr1-xBaxMoO3

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