Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 272, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2020.119003
Keywords
Photocatalysis; Hydrogen peroxide; Oxygen reduction; Phosphate ion-coated palladium; Bismuth vanadate
Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H06046, JP17H06439]
- Mazda Foundation
- Kansai University Fund for Supporting Young Scholars (2017)
- Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan [3RF1903]
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H2O2 production from O-2 over Pd nanoparticle (NP) co-catalysts-supported BiVO4 was studied. Several deposition methods and conditions (active metal, co-catalyst loading, solution pH) were investigated for catalyst preparation, and the photo-assisted deposition (PAD) of Pd from an aqueous phosphate buffer solution (pH = 7) was found to be optimal, resulting in small and uniform phosphate ion (PO43-)-coated Pd NPs being selectively deposited on the reductive surfaces of the BiVO4. This catalyst exhibited better H2O2 production from O-2 in the presence of methanol (CH3OH) as a hole scavenger under visible light irradiation than that by the catalysts prepared by the other methods and under other PAD conditions. It is surmised that PO43- partially coats smaller Pd NPs with a narrow size distribution on the reductive surfaces of the BiVO4, and that these NPs promote H2O2 generation synergistically by catalyzing the two-electron reduction of O-2 while simultaneously inhibiting the four-electron reduction of O-2 and the two-electron reduction of H2O2 to H2O.
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