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A Facile Synthetic Method to Obtain Bismuth Oxyiodide Microspheres Highly Functional for the Photocatalytic Processes of Water Depuration
Published on: March 29, 2019
Effects of hydrothermal temperature on the microstructures of BiVO(4) and its photocatalytic O(2) evolution activity
Dingning Ke1, Tianyou Peng, Liang Ma
1College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Abstract:
Microspheric and lamellar BiVO(4) powders were selectively prepared through a hydrothermal process by using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a template-directing reagent. The as-prepared BiVO(4) powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, nitrogen adsorption-desorption experimentation, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Experimental results indicate that microspheric BiVO(4) with particle sizes in the range of 7-12 microm can be derived from a relatively low hydrothermal temperature (
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