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Bismuth vanadate/MXene (BiVO4/Ti3C2) heterojunction composite: enhanced interfacial control charge transfer for highly efficient visible light photocatalytic activity

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 27, Pages 35911-35923

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13315-9

Keywords

MXenes; BiVO4; Ti3C2; Catalysis; Congo red; Methyl orange; Hydrothermal; Water purification; Nanoparticles

Funding

  1. State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council [201808410144]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51202107]
  3. Foundation of Henan Educational Committee [20A480003]

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A BiVO4/Ti3C2 nanocomposite was synthesized via a low-cost hydrothermal method, showing enhanced photocatalytic degradation activity with the addition of MXene. The heterojunction composite demonstrated high degradation efficiency for various dyes due to its large specific surface area, reduced band gap, and low recombination rate of charge carriers. The chemical mechanism proposed Ti3C2 playing a role in electron capture, paving the way for excellent photocatalytic action and potential development of cost-effective co-catalysts in solar utilization.
We have synthesized BiVO4/Ti3C2 nanocomposite via a low-cost hydrothermal method and investigate its photocatalytic degradation activity against monoazo (methyl orange) and diazo dye (Congo red) in an aqueous solution under visible light. The physiochemical characterization exhibited that the addition of MXene in pristine BiVO4 nanocomposite led to an increase in specific surface area and reduction in optical band gap energy. MXene also helps in enhancing visible light response via a higher electron-hole pair generation rate and long lifetime. The synthesized BiVO4/Ti3C2 heterojunction composite exhibited 99.5 % degradation efficiency within 60 min for Congo red and 99.1 % for methyl orange solution in 130 min owed to a large specific surface area (1.79 m(2)/g), reduced band gap (1.99 eV), and low recombination rate of charge carriers. The chemical mechanism for BiVO4/Ti3C2 nanocomposite proposes that Ti3C2 role-plays as electron capture because of the higher potential of MXenes, tuning band gap energy which paves the way to excellent photocatalytic action. This work opens a new basis for developing Ti3C2 based promising and inexpensive co-catalyst for efficient solar utilization in photocatalytic-related applications in the future.

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