Early Stages of CeO2 Thin-film Nucleation and Growth with Photo Irradiation

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Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 696-703.doi: 10.1007/s40242-020-0213-0

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Early Stages of CeO₂ Thin-film Nucleation and Growth with Photo Irradiation

JIN Tongzheng¹, JIANG Xinyi¹, YANG Yumeng¹, ZHU Benfeng¹, LIU Jiao³, JIANG Li¹, WEI Guoying¹, ZHANG Zhao²

1. College of Materials and Chemistry, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, P. R. China;
2. Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China;
3. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China

Received:2020-08-19 Revised:2020-11-01 Online:2021-06-01 Published:2021-05-31
Contact: YANG Yumeng, WEI Guoying E-mail:yangyumeng@cjlu.edu.cn;guoyingwei@cjlu.edu.cn
Supported by:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52001300, 51771173, 21171155 and 51471156).

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, the early stages of nucleation and photoirradiation growth of CeO₂ thin films have been studied. Cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and scanning electron microscopy were used to analyze the nucleation process of CeO₂ thin films deposited on the anode with photo irradiation. Experimental results show that the anodic deposition process with photo illumination is controlled by diffusion. Compared with the dark state, photo illumination mainly contributed to increase the current density of the three-dimensional nucleation process, because photo illumination is helpful to create active sites and accelerate the nucleation progress on the surface that a thin ceria film has been formed. Two-dimensional nucleation process mainly exists within the initial 2 s, and then only three-dimensional instantaneous nucleation process continues, which may be the main reason why the thickness of the CeO₂ film can continue to grow with photo illumination but not in the dark state. Increasing the deposition overpotential can promote two-dimensional nucleation and growth rate, whilst when the potential exceeds 0.65 V, three-dimensional current density decreases. The li-miting factor at that time may be the diffusion rate of cerium ions in the solution towards the electrode substrate.

Key words: Photo illumination, Anodic electrodeposition, CeO₂ film, Nucleation and growth

JIN Tongzheng, JIANG Xinyi, YANG Yumeng, ZHU Benfeng, LIU Jiao, JIANG Li, WEI Guoying, ZHANG Zhao. Early Stages of CeO₂ Thin-film Nucleation and Growth with Photo Irradiation[J]. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 2021, 37(3): 696-703.

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