Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages 366-373Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2014.11.050
Keywords
Photocatalysis; g-C3N4; Sensitization; Porphyrin
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundations of China [21106138]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2011YXL062]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2012AA062701]
- Open fund of National Laboratory of Mineral Materials [09A003]
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Cu (II) meso-Tetra (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (CuTCPP) hybridized g-C3N4 (CuTCPP/g-C3N4) composites have been facilely synthesized through the ethanol dispersion method. CuTCPP molecules as a sensitizer could easily assemble on the surface of g-C3N4 nanosheets mainly through pi-pi stacking interaction. The CuTCPP/g-C3N4 composites show much higher photocatalytic activity for phenol degradation than pure g-C3N4 under visible light irradiation. The optimum photocatatlytic activity of the CuTCPP/g-C3N4 composites with weight ratio of CuTCPP at 0.75% is almost 2.2 times as high as that of pure g-C3N4 under the visible light. The enhancement of the visible light photocatalytic activity comes from the efficient electrons transfer from photoexcited CuTCPP molecules to g-C3N4 sheets and more efficiently visible-light harvesting due to the CuTCPP sensitization. Both the holes and center dot O2- are main oxidative species of CuTCPP/g-C3N4 for phenol degradation under visible light irradiation. Finally, the possible charge transfer mechanism of enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity was proposed. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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