Journal
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 250, Issue -, Pages 106-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.01.051
Keywords
Microwave-assisted method; Photocatalyst; BiVO4; Reduced graphene oxide; Ciprofloxacin
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21001086, 21276116]
- Postgraduate Research Foundation of Jiangsu Province [1102123C]
- National Postgraduate Research Foundation of China [2011M500853]
- Science Department of Jiangsu Province [BK2010340]
- Jiangsu University [10JDG070]
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To improve the photodegradation efficiency for ciprofloxacin (CIP), a new-type microwave-assisted in situ growth method is developed for the preparation of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) -BiVO4 composite photocatalysts. The as-produced RGO-BiVO4 composite photocatalysts show extremely high enhancement of CIP degradation ratio over the pure BiVO4 photocatalyst under visible light. Specially, the 2 wt% RGO-BiVO4 composite photocatalyst exhibits the highest CIP degradation ratio (68.2%) in 60 min, which is over 3 times than that (22.7%) of the pure BiVO4 particles. The enhancement of photocatalytic activities of RGO-BiVO4 photocatalysts can be attributed to the effective separation of electron-hole pairs rather than the improvement of light absorption. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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