Preparation of Ce, N-Codoped Mesoporous Titania Photocatalyst with High Photocatalytic Activity under Visible Light

2009 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 339-344
Author(s):  
Tsugumi Hayashi ◽  
Yohei Baba ◽  
Toshiharu Taga ◽  
Shun Yokoyama ◽  
Hiroaki Suzuki ◽  
...  

Objective of study was the development of core-shell type ZnS-CdS photocatalyst with the stratified morphology. To form the stratified morphology, condition of the precursor is extremely important. For this purpose, three types of precursors, thus core-shell type, egg-shell type and uniform type, was tried to synthesize by utilizing the results of the calculation. The size of the synthesized precursor particles was about 40-100 nm. Main phase of the particle was gradually changed from ZnO (pH8.0) to Cd(OH)2 (pH9.5). Detailed analysis of the synthesized precursor was clearly demonstrated that these have the crystalline structure and each metal element was co-existed in one particle. Therefore, it could be concluded that core-shell type or uniform type precursor was successfully synthesized. Core-shell type ZnS-CdS stratified photocatalyst could be successfully synthesized by sulfurization for 1h, and it shows the high photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation.


NANO ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zeng ◽  
Yang Yin

CuS hexagonal nanosheet/graphene was fabricated by a facile one-pot microwave-thermal method. The samples possess excellent photocatalytic activity for degradation of organic pollutant under visible light. The high photocatalytic activity was attributed to the deposition of CuS hexagonal nanosheet onto graphene. CuS nanosheet serves as a transporter which efficiently inhibits the recombination of the photo-induced charge carriers in the nanocomposites. The developed method demonstrates a facile approach towards the synthesis of two-dimensional semiconductor-graphene nanocomposites with excellent photocatalytic performance under visible light.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4B) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Trinh Duy Nguyen

Flower-like Bi2WO6 were successfully synthesized using the solvothermal method at different temperatures and characterized by XRD, FE-SEM, and DRS. We also investigated the photocatalytic activity of Bi2WO6 for the decomposition of rhodamine B under visible light irradiation. From XRD and SEM results, the reaction temperature has significant effects on the morphologies of the samples. From DRS results, Bi2WO6 samples displayed the absorption spectrum up to the visible region and then they showed the high photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation, as a comparison with TiO2-P25.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (30) ◽  
pp. 16513-16520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenghe Hua ◽  
Xiaoli Dong ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Nan Zheng ◽  
Hongchao Ma ◽  
...  

BiOCl1−xBrx nanosheets are covered by a thin layer of AgBr that forms BiOCl1−xBrx@AgBr heterostucture with high photocatalytic activity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Liu ◽  
Jing Xu ◽  
Zhenlu Liu ◽  
Xinyu Liu ◽  
Shengming Xu ◽  
...  

Ni-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive concern as photocatalysts thanks to their high photocatalytic activity and non-toxicity. In this study, a novel visible light induced photocatalyst CuMn-LDO/NiS (CMS) was successfully synthesized...


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2763
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Bielan ◽  
Szymon Dudziak ◽  
Agnieszka Sulowska ◽  
Daniel Pelczarski ◽  
Jacek Ryl ◽  
...  

Among various methods of improving visible light activity of titanium(IV) oxide, the formation of defects and vacancies (both oxygen and titanium) in the crystal structure of TiO2 is an easy and relatively cheap alternative to improve the photocatalytic activity. In the presented work, visible light active defective TiO2 was obtained by the hydrothermal reaction in the presence of three different oxidizing agents: HIO3, H2O2, and HNO3. Further study on the effect of used oxidant and calcination temperature on the physicochemical and photocatalytic properties of defective TiO2 was performed. Obtained nanostructures were characterized by X-ray diffractometry (XRD), specific surface area (BET) measurements, UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DR-UV/Vis), photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Degradation of phenol as a model pollutant was measured in the range of UV-Vis and Vis irradiation, demonstrating a significant increase of photocatalytic activity of defective TiO2 samples above 420 nm, comparing to non-defected TiO2. Correlation of EPR, UV-Vis, PL, and photodegradation results revealed that the optimum concentration of HIO3 to achieve high photocatalytic activity was in the range of 20–50 mol%. Above that dosage, titanium vacancies amount is too high, and the obtained materials’ photoactivity was significantly decreased. Studies on the photocatalytic mechanism using defective TiO2 have also shown that •O2− radical is mainly responsible for pollutant degradation.


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