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Yanling Geng1, Jiyan Ma1, Zhenfei Hou1
1State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, Taishan Scholar Advantage and Characteristic Discipline Team of Eco Chemical Process and Technology, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China.
Abstract:
In this work, ZnWO₄/BiOI composite photocatalysts were synthesized via a facile water bath method. The photocatalysts were characterized using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-Vis diffusion reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. Furthermore, the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) using ZnWO₄/BiOI was studied under the irradiation of visible-light. The results showed that ZnWO₄/BiOI composites displayed much higher photocatalytic activity than pure ZnWO₄ and BiOI. Among all the samples, ZnWO₄/BiOI with the molar ratio of 5:5 (ZB-5) displayed the highest photocatalytic activity. The Enhancement of the photocatalytic activity primarily resulted from the effective separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. According to the radical scavengers experiments, ·O₂- and h+ played an important role during the degradation process.
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