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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 336, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2022.111876
Keywords
Lignosulfonate; Sulfur-doped carbon; Photocatalyst; Tetracycline; Photogenerated charge carrier
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Research & Development Program [BE2020039]
- National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China [32071723]
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This study reports the transformation of lignin into sulfur-doped carbon photocatalysts and evaluates their performance. It was found that the incorporation of sulfur enhances the photocatalytic activity and lowers the band gap of carbon materials, leading to improved degradation efficiency of tetracycline. This research provides an innovative strategy for the valorization of lignin to produce valuable carbon photocatalysts.
As the only use of 95% of industrial lignin is as a low-value fuel, it is urgent to explore novel approaches to transform lignin into useful materials. Herein, we report the first transformation of lignin into value-added and inexpensive sulfur-doped carbon photocatalysts by one-step carbonization of sodium lignosulfonates in the presence/absence of Na2S.9H(2)O. The sulfur-doped carbon photocatalysts were thoroughly characterized by various physicochemical techniques, including N2 adsorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning transmission microscopy (SEM), photocurrent response, photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The IR and XPS spectra show that the dominant sulfur species in the prepared carbon materials are thiophene and SOx groups, such as sulfone groups and sulfonic acid groups. Photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline was employed as a model reaction to evaluate the photocatalytic activities of the sulfur-doped carbons. The incorporation of sulfur-containing groups was found to efficiently decrease the band gaps of these carbon materials and enhance photogenerated charge carrier separation and transfer, thus boosting the tetracycline degradation efficiency. The active sulfur species potentially responsible for the photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline and the degradation mechanism of tetracycline were determined. An innovative strategy for the valorization of lignin to produce valuable carbon photocatalysts was developed in this study.
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