Oxygen Radicals Entrapped between MgO Nanocrystals: Formation, Spectroscopic Fingerprints, and Reactivity toward Water
Thomas Schwab,
Eva Muchová,
Korbinian Aicher
et al.
Abstract:Compaction of dehydroxylated
MgO nanocrystal powders
produces adsorbed
oxygen radicals with characteristic UV–vis spectroscopic fingerprints.
Identical absorption bands arise upon UV excitation in an oxygen atmosphere
but in the absence of uniaxial pressure. Photophysical calculations
on MgO gas-phase clusters reveal that the observed optical transitions
at 4.4 and 3.0 eV are consistent with adsorbed superoxide (O
2
·–
)
and ozonide (O
3
·–
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