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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 27, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.susmat.2020.e00242
Keywords
Heterojunction photocatalyst; Carbon dots; AgCl; Visible-light photocatalysis; Dye degradation; Hydrogen evolution
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Funding
- NSFC [21878279, 51602297]
- Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province Project [ZR2018MB032]
- Fundamental Research funds for the Central Universities [201841012]
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A novel efficient AgCl-based heterojunction photocatalyst was synthesized by in-situ electrostatic-assembly of carbon dots, showing significantly enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performances in dye degradation and hydrogen evolution. The photocatalyst also exhibited good reusability and stability, along with a proposed photocatalytic mechanism facilitating the transfer-separation of photo-generated electron-hole pairs. This work could provide a new route to prepare novel high-efficient photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications.
A novel efficient AgCl-based heterojunction photocatalyst was synthesized by in-situ electrostatic-assembly of carbon dots (CDs) for the first time. Distinct from the physical blending between CDs and AgCl (CDs + AgCl), CDsAg was heterojuncted into AgCl in this work. The resulting CDsAg-AgCl photocatalyst was endowed with significantly enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performances in both dye degradation and hydrogen evolution With a Cl-/Ag+ molar percentage of 90% and visible light irradiation, methyl orange (MO) was degraded within 30 min with a degradation efficiency of 0.069 min(-1), which was about 42.3, 8.9 and 10.6 times higher than those of CDs, AgCl and CDsAg+AgCl, respectively. It also yielded an excellent hydrogen evolution efficiency of 617.4 mu molg(-1) h(-1), exhibiting a high potential in the field of energy regeneration. Moreover, it showed a good reusability and stability after 5 recycles for both degradation and hydrogen evolution. In addition, a possible photocatalytic mechanism was proposed, where CDsAg-AgCl heterojunction structure facilitated the transfer-separation of photo-generated electron-hole pairs to promote the photocatalytic performance. This work could provide a new route to prepare novel high-efficient photocatalysts for the energy and environmental application. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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