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FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00649
Keywords
BiOBr; g-C3N4; photocatalysts; heterojunctions; pollutant degradation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21667019]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [20171ACB20016]
- Jiangxi Province Major Academic and Technical Leaders Cultivating Object Program [20172BCB22014]
- Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province [20181BCB18003, 20181ACG70025]
- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, TIPC, CSA [PCOM201906]
- Science and Technology Research of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education [DA201602063]
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control System for of Shore Environment [S1-KF1703]
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The high recombination rates of photogenerated electron-holes greatly inhibit the catalytic activity of semiconductor photocatalysts. Herein, the heterojunctions of the flower-like g-C3N4/BiOBr composites were synthesized as photocatalysts by a simple hydrothermal process. The X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectrometer were utilized to characterize the sample's structure and light absorption properties. The results demonstrated that BiOBr-g-C3N4-4:1 showed excellent photocatalytic properties and 96.6% of bisphenol (BPA) was removed in 120min with illumination of visible light due to its narrower band gap than that of pure BiOBr. BiOBr offer little electrons during the photocatalytic reaction. Moreover, the heterostructure between BiOBr and g-C3N4 facilitates the separation of photogenerated carriers. Excellent stability was exhibited after five cyclic degradation of methyl orange (MO) with the illumination of visible light. The active species trapping experiment indicated that superoxide radical anions (O-2(center dot-)) and hole (h(+)) have a great effect on the reaction. A possible mechanism was proposed to explain the whole process of photocatalytic reaction.
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