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Guixia Zhao1, Yubing Sun1, Yukun Zhao2
1College of Environmental Science and Engineering , North China Electric Power University , Beijing 102206 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
To enhance the electron-hole separation and boost the practical performance of commercial titania (Degussa P25) under natural solar light, in this work, P25 was modified with Co(II) species (CoP25) through post-treatment with decomposition of Co-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid precursors in a wet chemical anchoring process. With appropriate Co(II) loading amount as molecular cocatalyst, the resulted CoP25-4 showed significantly improved photocatalytic performance for Cr(VI) reduction and bisphenol A (BPA) oxidation under UV-light irradiation. The coexistence of Cr(VI) and BPA promoted mutually the degradation of both pollutants. Under simulated solar light (AM 1.5G) illumination, the Cr(VI) reduction rate over CoP25-4 was 8.5 times enhanced compared with that over P25, whereas the simultaneous degradation rate of BPA over CoP25-4 was 8 times higher than that over P25. Further investigations indicated that the covalent atomic Co(II) anchoring on P25 significantly promoted the photogenerated electron-hole separation and facilitated Cr(VI) reduction via the formation of a Co(I) intermediate and simultaneously boosted BPA oxidation. Our results demonstrated a facile strategy to modify P25 with remarkably improved performance for the practical application in environmental pollution management under natural light excitation.
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