Interface Engineering and Oxygen Vacancy Control in SrTiO3-TiO2 Eutectics

Hou, Zhiwei; Guo, Yefei; Zeeshan, Hafiz Muhammad; Voloshina, Elena; Dedkov, Yuriy (2025) Interface Engineering and Oxygen Vacancy Control in SrTiO3-TiO2 Eutectics. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 12 (24). ISSN 2196-7350

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Abstract

The development of highly efficient semiconducting materials is essential for achieving the high-yield and stable hydrogen and/or oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER) in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting reactions. The SrTiO3-TiO2 eutectic compound has recently emerged as a perspective material with extraordinary activities in the PEC field due to the unique crystallographic and electronic properties caused by the large number of oxygen vacancies in the bulk. In the present study, different experimental techniques (XPS, SEM/EDX, TEM/EDX) are used to provide a detailed investigation of the changes in the structural and electronic properties of the SrTiO3-TiO2 eutectic upon annealing under various gaseous environments (in vacuum, air, oxygen, argon). These results demonstrate that thermal annealing in different environments significantly enhances the formation of a sharp interface between the two crystalline phases and allows to control the concentration of the oxygen vacancies within the eutectic material.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EDX; eutectic; SEM; semiconductor; TEM; XPS
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics > Condensed Matter Physics
Divisions:	Theoretical Physics Division
Depositing User:	Elena Voloshina
Date Deposited:	31 Dec 2025 09:06
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/10630
DOI:	10.1002/admi.202500911

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