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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 244, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125462
Keywords
Graphitic carbon nitride; Ag3PO4; Nanocomposite; Formaldehyde; Photocatalytic degradation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51801164]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK 2018C001]
- Venture & Innovation Support Program for Chongqing Overseas Returnees [cx2018080]
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A series of Ag3PO4/g-C3N4 nanocomposites were synthesized by introducing various small amount of Ag3PO4 in g-C3N4 and subsequently employed for decomposing formaldehyde (HCHO) in continuous flow as photocatalysts. The results show that all the Ag3PO4/g-C3N4 nanocomposites could perform a very stable photoactivity for degrading continuously flowing gaseous formaldehyde for at least 600 h. Especially, the HCHO degradation rate reached 22.4% by using 1AP-CN, which was 2.63 times as fast as that of g-C3N4. Our results reveal that the photoinduced electrons in conduction band (CB) are trapped by O-2 to yield center dot O-2(-), while holes in valence band (VB) directly oxidize -OH and/or water to produce center dot OH under visible light irradiation. As a consequence, HCHO is further oxidized to CO2 and H2O by as-generate active species. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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