scholarly journals Enhanced charge separation and increased oxygen vacancies of h-BN/OV-BiOCl for improved visible-light photocatalytic performance

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (25) ◽  
pp. 14286-14295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhui He ◽  
Yawen Wang ◽  
Caimei Fan ◽  
Yunfang Wang ◽  
Xiaochao Zhang ◽  
...  

h-BN/OV-BiOCl composites were prepared to improve the visible-light photocatalytic activity of OV-BiOCl.

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (26) ◽  
pp. 13409-13417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Liu ◽  
Liang Wu ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
Ji-yuan Liang ◽  
Chang-shun Li ◽  
...  

N-doping and intercalation resulted in a PANI–N-HTiNbO5lamellar nanocomposite, which showed a dramatic enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity and stability for the degradation of methylene blue (MB), due to the high efficiency of charge separation.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 17667-17675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Wen Shi ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Chi He ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Chong Xie ◽  
...  

C-doped TiO2 nanoplates (CTNP) with exposed {001} facets were synthesized for the first time. The obtained CTNP presented high visible-light photocatalytic activity. A reasonable mechanism of photocatalysis on CTNP under visible light was proposed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (35) ◽  
pp. 13944-13950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Yan ◽  
Hongfei Shi ◽  
Huaqiao Tan ◽  
Wanbin Zhu ◽  
Yonghui Wang ◽  
...  

A new 2D sheet composite Bi2OxS3−x/Nb6O17 has been prepared, which shows good visible light photocatalytic performance for the degradation of methyl orange.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Gong ◽  
Hongtao Yu ◽  
Xie Quan

Recently a novel sliver oxide Ag3AsO4has been found to be an excellent photocatalyst with strong oxidation capability for pollutant degradation under visible light. But the origin of its high visible light photocatalytic activity was unclear which hindered further research of Ag3AsO4. For clarifying that, the electronic structure and optical properties of Ag3AsO4have been analyzed by the hybrid density functional method. The results reveal that the Ag3AsO4presents a narrow band gap with strong oxidation ability of the valence bands maximum edge and the highly delocalized charge distribution of the conduction bands minimum is beneficial for the carriers transfer to surface to participate in the photocatalytic reaction. These results provide clear explanations of the excellent visible light photocatalytic performance of the Ag3AsO4from microscopic aspect. And it is significant to design novel materials with high photocatalytic performance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (21) ◽  
pp. 2755-2757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Zhao ◽  
Huaqiao Tan ◽  
Haifeng Zhao ◽  
Yang Lv ◽  
Li-Jing Zhou ◽  
...  

Enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performance for water splitting H2evolution is obtained from reduced TiO2rutile nanorods with well-defined facets.


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1163
Author(s):  
Lan-li Chen ◽  
Bao-gai Zhai ◽  
Yuan Ming Huang

It is significant to render visible-light photocatalytic activity to undoped ZnO nanostructures via intrinsic defect engineering. In this work, undoped ZnO nanocrystals were derived via co-precipitation synthesis. The resulting ZnO nanocrystals were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy, respectively. The visible-light photocatalytic activity of the products were characterized by monitoring the decomposition of methyl orange in water under visible-light illumination of a 300 W halogen lamp. It is found that undoped ZnO nanocrystals exhibit visible-light photocatalytic activity with their first-order rate constant up to 4.6 × 10−3 min−1. Density functional calculations show that oxygen vacancies create deep energy levels at EV + 0.76 eV in the bandgap of ZnO. In conjunction with the density functional calculations, the photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange under visible-light irradiation provides direct evidence that oxygen vacancies in ZnO nanocrystals yield the visible-light photocatalytic activity. Our results demonstrate that visible-light photocatalytic activity can be endowed to undoped ZnO nanocrystals by manipulating the intrinsic defects in ZnO. Intrinsic defect-modulated ZnO photocatalysts thus represent a powerful configuration for further development toward visible-light responsive photocatalysis.


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