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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages 5622-5634Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10854-020-03129-9
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- Council of Iran National Science Foundation (INSF)
- University of Semnan
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In current study, hierarchical flower-like AgI/Bi2O3 heterostructured nanocomposites were fabricated successfully by a glycothermal approach. In the production process, the various conditions such as reaction time and temperature and type of surfactant were investigated, which by optimizing these parameters, uniform flower-like AgI/Bi2O3 heterojunction nanostructures were formed. The as-obtained AgI/Bi2O3 binary nanocomposites exhibited enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance towards the desulfurization of dibenzothiophene under mild conditions. Results indicated that the porous flower-like AgI/Bi2O3 photocatalyst with suitable energy band gap (2.81 eV), has superior photocatalytic desulfurization efficiency about 93% after 2 h visible light irradiation, even after 5 recycles. The enhanced photocatalytic performance could be attributed to the special architecture and formation of Z-scheme system in the AgI/Bi2O3, which results in the efficient separation and transfer of photo-generated charge carriers. Furthermore, the photodesulfurization mechanism was deduced by active species trapping experiments and the results represented that h(+) and O-center dot(2)- species played main roles in the photo-oxidation reactions.
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