Electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reaction on gold nanoparticles modified titanium dioxide films with different morphology

  • Hanna M. Maltanava Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus
  • Nadzeya Yu. Brezhneva Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Alexander V. Mazanik Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4725-0969
  • Semyon O. Mazheika Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7508-4585
  • Tatiana V. Gaevskaya Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1699-8552
  • Ekaterina V. Skorb Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus; ITMO University, 49 Kronverksky Avenue, Saint Petersburg 197101, Russia
  • Sergey K. Poznyak Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1752-0670

Abstract

Dense and mesoporous titanium dioxide films have been obtained on titanium substrate by means of thermal oxidation, hydrolysis of polybutyltitanate, deposition of titanium dioxide sol, ultrasonic treatment and anodic oxidation and characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Electrochemical activity of titanium dioxide films, initial and modified by gold nanoparticles, in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline medium has been studied by cyclic voltammetry. It has been demonstrated that the efficiency of the dense and mesoporous titanium dioxide films in ORR is determined by their morphology, structure and pore ordering degree. Modification of titanium dioxide films by gold nanoparticles results in the decrease in overpotential of the ORR. It has been found that the electrodes consisted of highly ordered layers of titania nanotubes with deposited gold nanoparticles demonstrate sufficiently higher electrocatalytic activity toward the oxygen electroreduction in comparison with TiO2/Au systems based on dense films and mesoporous films with disordered pore structure. Features of electrochemical behavior of TiO2/Au (nanotubes/nanoparticles) system are explained by the peculiarities of electron transport to the electrode surface and structure of space charge layer in the mesoporous oxide film.

Author Biographies

Hanna M. Maltanava, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus

PhD (chemistry); senior researcher at the laboratory of thin films chemistry

Nadzeya Yu. Brezhneva, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

postgraduate student at the department of inorganic chemistry, faculty of chemistry

Alexander V. Mazanik, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (physics and mathematics), docent; head of the department of energy physics, faculty of physics

Semyon O. Mazheika, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

student at the faculty of chemistry, assistant of junior researcher at the laboratory of thin films chemistry

Tatiana V. Gaevskaya, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus

PhD (chemistry), docent; leading researcher at the laboratory of thin films chemistry and director

Ekaterina V. Skorb, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus; ITMO University, 49 Kronverksky Avenue, Saint Petersburg 197101, Russia

PhD (chemistry); professor at the chemicalbiological cluster, Belarusian State University, and direсtor of the Infochemistry Scientific Center, ITMO University

Sergey K. Poznyak, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems, Belarusian State University, 14 Lieninhradskaja Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus

PhD (chemistry); leading researcher at the laboratory of thin films chemistry

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Published
2020-08-25
Keywords: titanium dioxide, films, morphology, gold nanoparticles, electrocatalysis, oxygen reduction
How to Cite
Maltanava, H. M., Brezhneva, N. Y., Mazanik, A. V., Mazheika, S. O., Gaevskaya, T. V., Skorb, E. V., & Poznyak, S. K. (2020). Electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reaction on gold nanoparticles modified titanium dioxide films with different morphology. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Chemistry, 2, 63-75. https://doi.org/10.33581/2520-257X-2020-2-63-75