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In-situ Pt nanoparticles decorated BiOBr heterostructure for enhanced visible light-based photocatalytic activity:
Kamakshaiah Charyulu Devarayapalli1, Jie Zeng2, Dae Sung Lee1
1Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, South Korea.
Abstract:
Advanced functional materials for photocatalytic hydrogen (H2) generation using abundant solar energy are the core of new and renewable energy research. In this paper, we report the in-situ deposition of platinum quantum-sized particles (Pt QDs) on bismuth oxybromide (BBr) 3D marigold flowers with exposed (101)/(110) facets (i.e. BBr-Pt) hierarchies prepared by a simple solvo-thermal method acting as a surfactant/structure stabilizer in the presence of CTAB. Synthesized samples were characterized by a series of analytical techniques. Intimate contact as demonstrated by HRTEM, effect of Pt loading in 3D-BiOBr nanostructure on photocatalytic H2 production and crystal violet (CV) dye degradation rate under white LED light irradiation was studied. This was greatly improved by loading Pt QDs on BBr, the latter showing the highest photocatalytic activity for BBr-2Pt nanostructure, due to the synergistic effect of quantum-sized Pt nanoparticles and exposed ((101) and (110) planes). The BBr-2Pt nanostructure photocatalysts showed highest H2 generation of 320.69 μmol g-1, which is 142 folds larger than bare BBr (2.26 μmol g-1).
